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CBI seeks closure of corruption case against Junior Engineer

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has urged a Special court for CBI cases here to close a corruption case against a Junior Engineer of the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) here saying that the official had been held innocent in a departmental inquiry.

The investigating agency had charge-sheeted the Junior Engineer, S.S Mazumdar, with demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs. 450 from a contractor to clear the latter's pending bills of Rs. 52,000.

The agency had arrested the Junior Engineer while demanding and accepting the bribe amount following a complaint by the contractor, S.K. Kataria, in April 1989, the charge-sheet said. The probe agency sought the closure of the case on the ground that the Junior Engineer had not demanded and accepted the money from the contractor to pass his pending bills but to pay labourers doing the renovation work in a building on Pusa Road in Central Delhi.

This is the second time that CBI has preferred to close the case.

Earlier, the investigating agency had made the same plea in February 2001 but the Special court had rejected its application saying that it was not the job of a Junior Engineer to take money from a contractor and distribute it to labourers.

This time round, the investigating agency has annexed the statement of one of the labourers in support of its version of the case.

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