CBI registers case against senior railway official
The CBI on Thursday registered a case against a senior Railway official for allegedly cheating the department by transfer of valuable securities and bonds worth Rs 2.94 crore to private accounts.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday registered a case against a senior Railway official for allegedly cheating the department by transfer of valuable securities and bonds worth Rs 2.94 crore to private accounts.
The investigating agency registered the case against Ashok Kumar Shukla, Senior Divisional Finance Manager of North Central Railways in Allahabad following which raids were carried out at his residential premises at Allahabad and the houses of other accused persons, who allegedly conspired with the manager in the embezzlement of the huge sum of money.
The accused persons fraudulently transferred the valuable securities and PSU Bonds worth Rs 2.94 crore from a DEMAT account of the North-Central Railway maintained with a private firm at Allahabad to some unrelated accounts, CBI claimed in a press release.
The accused included a few sub-brokers of the firm that maintained the DEMAT account and their connivance with Shukla got revealed during the searches with some incriminating documents recovered by the CBI, it further said.
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