{"id":447049,"date":"2021-11-02T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447049"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T04:35:38","slug":"kickbacks-for-contracts-cbi-raids-top-official-contractors-of-south-western-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kickbacks-for-contracts-cbi-raids-top-official-contractors-of-south-western-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kickbacks for contracts\u2019: CBI raids top official, contractors of South Western Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said that it has conducted searches in at least 16 locations across Karnataka in connection to a case of an executive engineer of the South Western Railways receiving illegal kickbacks to the tune of Rs 1.29 crore from contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The raids were conducted at the offices and residences of railway engineer Ghanshyam Pradhan, M Suryanarayana Reddy, Krishi Infratech (represented by M Suryanarayana Reddy) and Vangala Suryanarayana Reddy.<\/p>\n<p>A CBI spokesperson said Ghanshyam Pradhan accepted kickbacks while supervising works of the contractors. He added that searches were conducted in Bengaluru, Hubballi, Mysuru, Sangli, Nandyala and Rangareddy, leading to the seizure of several incriminating documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said that it has conducted searches in at least 16 locations across Karnataka in connection to a case of an executive engineer of the South Western Railways receiving illegal kickbacks to the tune of Rs 1.29 crore from contractors. The raids were conducted at the offices and residences of railway engineer Ghanshyam Pradhan, M Suryanarayana Reddy, Krishi Infratech (represented by M Suryanarayana Reddy) and Vangala Suryanarayana Reddy. A CBI spokesperson said Ghanshyam Pradhan accepted kickbacks while supervising works of the contractors. He added that searches were conducted in Bengaluru, Hubballi, Mysuru, Sangli, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}