PATNA: A CBI trap team nabbed the deputy director general (DDG) of directorate general of mines safety (DGMS), central zone, Arvind Kumar, along with his brother Kailash Mandal and one Triloki Nath Singh with Rs35 lakh in Lakhisarai on Sunday. The CBI sources said Kumar is posted at DGMS head office at Dhanbad in Jharkhand.
CBI sources said an FIR was lodged against Kumar and the two private persons besides a few unknown persons for allegedly influencing the interview board members of the DGMS in order to get certain candidates selected for the job after payment of huge amount of money. The interview was held between March 3 and 20 this year.
Altogether 48 candidates cleared the interview after qualifying a computer-based examination for manager’s certificate of competency (restricted and unrestricted) by influencing the board members. As per the CBI sources, Rs1.5 lakh was paid by each of the 48 candidates to pass the interview.
CBI sources said Singh was handing over the first instalment of Rs35 lakh out of Rs75 lakh collected from the candidates to Mandal on behalf of Kumar, when the trio were arrested. CBI sources said the raid was also conducted at Mandal’s residence at Khaba village under Mednichowki police station area for at least three hours. They said it was the original parental residence of Kumar.
The sources said besides Lakhisarai, raids were conducted in Dhanbad, Ranchi, Nagpur, Udaipur, Shahdol, Hyderabad and Bilaspur, leading to recovery of incriminating documents and articles.