Four serving, former Rly engineers booked by CBI in corruption case

BHUBANESWAR: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a cheating and forgery case against an Indian Railway junior engineer and three other former engineers who worked in different capacities at Rajgangpur in Odisha, an official said on Tuesday.
The FIR was registered on Monday in the corruption case on the direction of the Lokpal of India, which earlier heard a complaint, filed last year, alleging wrongdoings by the accused Railway officials involving a construction company.
The corruption matter involves criminal misconduct by public servants currently or previously employed in the Works Department of the Indian Railway.
The three previous railway officials posted at Rajgangpur who were booked by the CBI include the then senior section engineer, works, the then JE, works, and the then electrical engineer, works.
A CBI official said the FIR also mentions a construction company among the list of accused, while keeping the identity of public servants confidential.
The FIR was filed under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions dealing with “criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, use of forged documents and criminal misconduct by a public servant,” he said.