New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested three people including two senior railway officials Sandeep Silas and MS Chalia, who are facing probe on corruption charges.
Sandeep Silas, a 1984-batch Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) officer, and MS Chalia of 1987 batch were taken into custody late Saturday night along with Sharan Bihari Agrawal, owner of R K Associates, in connection with the scam, CBI sources said on Sunday.
The arrests came after CBI recovered Rs 27 crore cash from Agrawal and his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal during searches last Friday.
The two railway officials and Sharan Bihari Agrawal were produced in the court today which has sent them to one day police custody. CBI spokesperson said they would be produced in Patiala House court on Monday again.
Both the officials were immediately suspended after CBI carried out searches at their residences on October 17.
It is alleged that the two officials, who held the position of Chief Commercial Manager, had shown favour to these private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water other than 'Rail Neer' which is mandatory in premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi.
CBI had said that the Railway Board had prescribed that IRCTC shall provide Rail Neer at the rate of around Rs 10.50 per bottle to private caterers and they would be paid (approx) Rs 15 per bottle for supplying the same to the passengers in premium trains.
However, in order to make undue gains, the private suppliers were allegedly supplying cheap packaged water, other than 'Rail Neer', available in the market at a rate of Rs 5.70 to Rs 7 (approx) per bottle, thereby making profits for themselves and loss to the exchequer.
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