Rs 3-crore bribe lands senior IAS officer in trouble
Vishwa Mohan
New Delhi: The CBI has booked the Delhi government’s finance commissioner,
Rakesh Mohan, for allegedly accepting a bribe of over Rs 3 crore in ‘kind’
to award a contract for renovation of Delhi Jal Board’s pipelines at an
overvalued Rs 35.84 crore.
Mohan, a senior IAS officer of the UT cadre, instead of taking 10% of the
contract value in cash, preferred to have a house in the US for his NRI
son-in-law Mohit Mehra.
Under the alleged deal struck between him and Vijay Kataria, owner of
Kaveri Infrastructure India Ltd, the latter had to purchase the house-worth
over Rs 3 crore-in Los Angeles and execute a special power of attorney in
favour of Mehra in 2005 when the process for award of contract was in
progress.
The case against Mohan and Kataria was registered on Monday. Sleuths on
Tuesday conducted raids in Delhi and Faridabad and recovered incriminating
documents.
NO WAY OUT: Rakesh Mohan