{"id":525583,"date":"2022-09-28T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525583"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T06:53:08","slug":"railway-engineer-arrested-with-%e2%82%b963l-cash-and-valuables-property-worth-%e2%82%b913-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-engineer-arrested-with-%e2%82%b963l-cash-and-valuables-property-worth-%e2%82%b913-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway engineer arrested with \u20b963L cash and valuables; property worth \u20b913-cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The principal chief mechanical engineer (PCME) of the Central Railway was arrested in a massive bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recovered \u20b923 lakh in cash, jewellery worth \u20b940 lakh, details of properties worth \u20b913 crore and deposits of USD 2,00,000 ( \u20b91,63,30,770) in three foreign bank accounts in Singapore and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, some bills of the Kolkata-based firm, a railway contractor, were pending with the mechanical engineering department of the Central Railway and the PCME, Ashok Kumar Gupta, the head of the mechanical engineering department allegedly demanded a bribe of \u20b91 lakh to clear the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on specific information, CBI registered an offence, and arrested the official driver of the PCME, Abdul Kalam Shaikh, for allegedly accepting the \u20b91 lakh as a bribe on behalf of the PCME from the partner of the Kolkata-based firm. The partner, Aditya Tiberwal is also arrested in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The principal chief mechanical engineer (PCME) of the Central Railway was arrested in a massive bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has recovered \u20b923 lakh in cash, jewellery worth \u20b940 lakh, details of properties worth \u20b913 crore and deposits of USD 2,00,000 ( \u20b91,63,30,770) in three foreign bank accounts in Singapore and the USA. According to the agency, some bills of the Kolkata-based firm, a railway contractor, were pending with the mechanical engineering department of the Central Railway and the PCME, Ashok Kumar Gupta, the head of the mechanical engineering department allegedly demanded a bribe of \u20b91 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-railways-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525583","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}