HC discharges PWD engineer booked in irrigation scam related case

The Bombay high court (HC) on Tuesday discharged the then executive engineer of the public works department (PWD) from a case related to the state irrigation scam.

Anilkumar Gaikwad, the then executive engineer of presidency division of PWD, was booked by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in September 2015, along with partners of FA Enterprises – Fateh Mohammed Khatri and his sons Nisar, Jaitun, Aabid and Jahid.

According to ACB, the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation does not allot any contract to a contractor who has already been awarded three dam construction contracts. FA Contractors had six works allotted to it and in order to have more irrigation contracts, formed a new firm–FA Enterprises– and claimed that it was made by directors who resigned from FA Contractors.