Summary:
Surendra Girdhar, advocate at district court, said, "NHAI officers while being quizzed by SIT had given them enough clues against suspended PCS officers. "It is not possible that the excess compensation for land was made as part of the scam and NHAI officials remained unaware of it", he said. According to sources, the SIT probe has found 25 dubious cases where the role of NHAI officials is being checked, and needed the head office go-ahead, as per protocol, to proceed with the prosecution. A few days back, though, the SIT received a letter from NHAI denying permission, the sources said.The issue of the highway authority’s engineers being involved in the scam has been a prickly one. “They could have gone in arbitration claiming that the compensation being offered was more and land was not as categorized..