FIRs registered over CAG report on Mumbai airport project

MUMBAI: FIRs have been registered against top officials of the aviation ministry, GVK Ltd and police department on a complaint that Mumbai International Airport Ltd ( MIAL) received undue benefit to the tune of hundreds of crores of rupees from the government.

The basis of the FIRs is a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG) on the Mumbai airport modernisation project. MIAL operates the Mumbai airport.

Alok Sinha, the then chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI), GVK Reddy, chairman of GVK Ltd, G V Sanjay Reddy, who is the managing director of the MIAL, Deputy Police Commissioner Namdev Chavan, Assistant Police Commissioner Madhukar Sankhye, Senior Inspector Rajendra Nagbhire and Inspector Vijay Sathe have been charged in an FIR filed yesterday at Airport police station here under IPC sections 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy), police said.

The second FIR names the four police personnel under IPC sections 166 (public servant disobeying law with intent to cause injury to any person), 217 (public servant disobeying direction of law with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture) for not registering the complaint earlier.

The third FIR has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act against these four policemen in the same case.

A court in suburban Andheri had directed the police to register the FIRs and start a probe after the activist Vishwas Bhamburkar approached the court, said Additional Police Commissioner Milind Bharambe this evening.