One more held in railway bribery case,3 remanded

Three persons,arrested in the bribery case involving Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansals nephew and a Railway Board member,were on Sunday remanded in CBI custody till May 7 by a Delhi court even as the agency arrested one more accused taking the total number of those apprehended to nine.

Three persons,arrested in the bribery case involving Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansals nephew and a Railway Board member,were on Sunday remanded in CBI custody till May 7 by a Delhi court even as the agency arrested one more accused taking the total number of those apprehended to nine.

Accused Narain Rao Manjunath,managing director of Bangalore-based G G Tronics India Pvt Ltd,and two others Samir Sandhir and Rahul Yadav were produced before Special CBI Judge Swarana Kanta Sharma who sent them to CBI custody till May 7 after the agency said that their custodial interrogation was required to unearth the entire conspiracy.

The CBI told the court that these accused were part of the deep rooted conspiracy and they need to interrogate them to confront them with the other arrested accused,including Bansals nephew Vijay Singla.

The CBI had on Friday arrested Vijay Singla,Bansals nephew,in Chandigarh when a conduit of Mahesh Kumar,Member Staff in the Railway Board,had allegedly handed over Rs 90 lakh to fix a posting for Kumar as Member Electrical.

Sunil Dagga,another accused and close associate of Manjunath,was apprehended by a CBI team in the capital,a CBI official said. The investigators are also on the lookout for Ajay Garg,an alleged middleman.

The court had on Saturday remanded Singla and three others,Sandip Goyal,Dharmendra Kumar and Vivek Kumar,in the CBI custody also till May 7 after the agency said it was necessary to find out the actual beneficiaries and other conspirators who were involved in the bribery case.

The CBI has also arrested from Mumbai Mahesh Kumar,who is Member Staff in the Railway Board and is the main accused in the case,and he is yet to be brought to New Delhi.