The Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau on Tuesday registered an FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in irrigation projects in the Vidarbha region in 2006.
Various irrigations projects in the state have been under the scanner since 2013 after a Special Investigating Team was set up by the Bombay High Court.
The ACB had registered an FIR last year in connection with irrigation projects in the Konkan region.
‘Abuse of position’
On Tuesday, the Nagpur unit of the ACB registered an FIR against two former officials of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) as well as FA Constructions, which received the contracts for the irrigation projects in 2006.
ACB officials said that the VIDC officials misused their official positions to award the tenders to FA Constructions in spite of several norms being flouted, and that FA Constructions had indulged in forgery and hatched a conspiracy with the government officials.
