2 jr engineers of irrigation dept arrested

  • | Wednesday | 28th June, 2017

After an investigation by the irrigation department, an FIR was lodged last week against 15 persons, including the then Muzaffarpur irrigation department chief engineer Gunja Lal Ram and CMD of Brahmaputra Infrastructure Company Limited Sanjit Prithani, who are yet to be arrested," the SHO said. "The company did not finish the work properly and it led to villagers' protest. The project carried an estimated expenditure of Rs 3.40 crore. SITAMARHI: The Dumra police on Monday arrested two contractual junior engineers of Bagmati division of irrigation department - Pradeep Kumar and Rajiv Kumar - for their alleged involvement in a financial fraud case.Police said the engineers were arrested on the basis of an FIR registered against them by the Bagmati division executive engineer Ram Vinay Sinha following an instruction from the office of engineer-in-chief flood control at Patna.SHO of Dumra police station Sujit Kumar Chaudhary said a private company, Brahmaputra Infrastructure Company Limited, was assigned to carry out earth filling and embankment widening work between Bathanaha and Pupri in Sitamarhi district under the supervision of engineers of Bagmati division.

SITAMARHI: The Dumra police on Monday arrested two contractual junior engineers of Bagmati division of irrigation department - Pradeep Kumar and Rajiv Kumar - for their alleged involvement in a financial fraud case.Police said the engineers were arrested on the basis of an FIR registered against them by the Bagmati division executive engineer Ram Vinay Sinha following an instruction from the office of engineer-in-chief flood control at Patna.SHO of Dumra police station Sujit Kumar Chaudhary said a private company, Brahmaputra Infrastructure Company Limited, was assigned to carry out earth filling and embankment widening work between Bathanaha and Pupri in Sitamarhi district under the supervision of engineers of Bagmati division. The project carried an estimated expenditure of Rs 3.40 crore."The company did not finish the work properly and it led to villagers' protest. After an investigation by the irrigation department, an FIR was lodged last week against 15 persons, including the then Muzaffarpur irrigation department chief engineer Gunja Lal Ram and CMD of Brahmaputra Infrastructure Company Limited Sanjit Prithani, who are yet to be arrested," the SHO said.

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