The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted searches at 26 locations across eleven States and Union Territories in connection with four criminal cases pertaining to misappropriation of funds in the Border Road Organisation.
These States and UTs are Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. Several incriminating documents and digital evidence have been recovered during the searches and the investigation is continuing.
A total of ten officers of the ranks of Lieutenant, Colonel, Major and Engineers, along with certain private persons, have been named in the FIRs.
The agency said that these cases are related to irregularities in the deployment of casual labourers and payments released in the name of fake casual labourers in Projects Vijayak and Yojak in Ladakh.
Four FIRs were registered in this connection based on criminal complaints lodged by the Ministry of Defence, based on an internal enquiry conducted by the Technical Board of Officers of BRO.
The offence relates to misappropriation of government funds, cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy.
