CBI recovers Rs 2.61 crore from Railway chief manager’s premises

The CBI on Wednesday said it recovered Rs 2.61 crore in cash during searches at the premises of Principal Chief Material Manager of North Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur, KC Joshi in a bribery case of Rs three lakh. The arrested accused Joshi is a 1988-batch Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) officer.

Joshi was arrested on Tuesday evening while allegedly receiving Rs 3 lakh as a bribe from a contractor who is the complainant in the case, officials said.

The contractor had approached the CBI with a complaint that his firm provides products and services to the North Eastern Railways and had received a yearly contract for the supply of three trucks on a contractual basis,

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