Charge-sheets were filed against the accused in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) scam, in a record time of 89 days.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (CBI) V V Lakshmi Narayana said, on Tuesday, that the Central Bureau Of Investigation has filed the charge-sheets against the accused in the Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) scam, in a record time of 89 days.
Lakshmi Narayana said that the charge-sheets have been filed before the Court of Special Judge For CBI Cases, Hyderabad, against the following: the then Chairman of RRB (Mumbai) SM Sharma; the then Hassan-Mangalore Rail Development Corporation CEO A K Jagannadham; Senior Divisional Personnel Officer, DRM (Raipur) G Sethy; as well as J Sahreen Kumar, P Srinivasa Rao, P Ashok Kumar, Kumaraswamy Jagannadham, Jagannadham Ramesh, Jagannadham Tirupathaiah MRSN Murthy, Vivek Bharadwaj, Srujan Jagannadham, Manish Patesaria , Ashim Roy and S Vijay Shankar.
Charge-sheets were filed under Sections 120-B, 409, 418, 420 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7, 8 and 13 (2) r/w 13 (1)(c) and (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
Narayana said that the accused have been charge-sheeted for the offences of criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating, cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue to the person whose interest the offender is bound to protect, and causing disappearance of the evidence, receiving illegal gratification and criminal misconduct.
Lakshmi Narayana revealed that the CBI has filed a 182-page charge-sheet and cited 310 witnesses and 384 documents, and that the entire documentation ran into 5,000 pages.
Giving details, the CBI official said that the crime was a major recruitment scam which involved leakage of the question papers of the examinations for the posts of Assistant Locomotive Pilot and Assistant Station Master, which were held on June 6th and June 13th, respectively, by the RRB, Mumbai.
Narayana said that the charge-sheet mentioned that A K Jagannadham and other accused persons lured and mobilised several aspirants through agents and sub-agents, and fixed the price of Rs. 3.5 lakhs for the post of Assistant Locomotive Pilot and Rs. 4 lakhs for the post of Assistant Station Master from each aspirant, and collected an initial advance amount ranging from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 1,05,000 as well as the original certificates of the aspirants.
Lakshmi Narayana pointed out that the CBI had registered the case on June 15th and filed the charge-sheet on September 13th.
Courtesy: INN