CBI registers a corruption case against the ex deputy chairman of Mumbai Port trust
merisarkar news service New Delhi February 25, 2011
CBI files case against ex Deputy Chairman
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case under section 420, 120-B IPC and Sections 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 against the then Deputy Chairman, the then Traffic Manager of Mumbai Port Trust and others for causing a loss of Rs.6.63 crores to the Port Trust.
It was alleged that the public servants of Mumbai Port Trust (MbPt) entered into criminal conspiracy along with others with an intention to cause wrongful pecuniary loss to the MbPT in the matter of allotment of Sheds for use by a Mumbai-based private firm under casual occupancy instead of the applicable Scale of Rates (SOR).
CBI said in a statement that the accused officials further waived the demurrage charges without proper approval from the competent authority for their wrongful pecuniary gains.The accused fraudulently allotted the Sheds A, K, L, and N of MbPT to the Mumbai-based private firm under general Bye Laws without adopting the proper procedure.
It was further alleged that during 2008, the public servants also allowed the delivery of cargo stores beyond permissible limits without levying of the applicable demurrage charges and without sanction from the competent authority, thereby causing wrongful loss of Rs.6.63 crores to the government and a corresponding wrongful gain to the private firm.
Searches were conducted at the residences & office premises of public servants and private firm which led to the recovery of incriminating documents.
