CBI to lodge FIR in Denel case

The CBI will file a case to probe the purchase of 300 anti-material rifles from the South African company Denel during the rule of the NDA g...

The CBI will file a case to probe the purchase of 300 anti-material rifles from the South African company Denel during the rule of the NDA government by the end of this week.

Senior officials with the Department of Personnel and Training said the case would be registered against ‘‘unknown officials’’. ‘The accused will be named in the FIR as the investigation proceeds,’’ the senior officials said.

The case will be registered under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act which relate to receiving illegal gratification and causing loss to the government exchequer along with sections of the IPC.

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It was decided to set up an ordinance factory in Nalanda district in Bihar to produce 155 mm shells. South African newspaper, Cape Argus had earlier reported that Denel had paid British company Varsa, to help it secure price-negotiation committee documents relating to this deal. The newspaper had also claimed that South Africa’s elite anti-corruption bureau was probing the pay-offs made by the company. On the basis of the allegations, the government had ordered a probe and has put on hold all future purchases from Denel.

The DoPT, in its note to the CBI, had sent a clipping of the newspaper’s article, findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) along with a note on the purchase.

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