A special court on Monday sent two senior rail officers and a businessman arrested in connection with the alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water in Rajdhani and other superfast trains to five-day police custody.
Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar remanded the three accused to CBI custody till October 23 after the agency submitted they were required to be interrogated to unearth the larger conspiracy and also for recovery of certain documents.
The agency said the two officers — Sandeep Silas and M.S. Chalia — were in conspiracy with arrested accused Sharan Bihari Agrawal and instead of taking Rail Neer, they had allowed some private firms to supply water in the trains, which resulted in a loss of Rs 6.25 crore to the exchequer.
The agency alleged that searches were conducted during the probe in which approximately Rs 28 crore was recovered out of which around Rs four lakh was counterfeit.
The CBI said that accused were not cooperating in the probe and they were required to be interrogated regarding some bank lockers in and outside Delhi and also in Agra.
Advocate Vikas Pahwa, who appeared for Chalia, told the court that his client was cooperating with the agency due to which he was not arrested on October 16 and 17 when the agency conducted the searches.
Mr. Pahwa also told the court that there was no flaw in grant of contract for supply of water and if at all there was any flaw, it was in the execution for which his client cannot be held responsible.
