Lucknow: CBI conducted a search in 38 locations in Uttar Pradesh and each in Rajasthan and West Bengal in connection with RS 1,513 Crore Gomti Riverfront Park Scam – the leading project from the previous Jamajwadi government.
The search starts on Sunday night and is underway in several locations until the late Monday.
The crackdown arrived after the CBI filed a new firm in the case on July 2, named 16 government officials and 173 companies and private entities as defendants.
The sources in the CBI said FIR was submitted after the revelation that appeared while investigating the original FIR in the scam submitted in 2017 where only eight engineers were considered by the defendant.
Searches are made in Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Agra, and Moradabad.
The CBI team also looked for each property in the Alwar district in Rajasthan and in Kolkata.
The premise sought include the property of two main engineers, four supervisory engineers, an executive engineer, assistant engineer posted with the irrigation department between 2015 and 2017 and has been linked to the implementation of the project.
Place of private entities related to fraud is also sought.
FI 2 July is related to work relating to Gomti Riverfront Park which was executed between 2015 and March 2017 of RS 407 Crore.
“The probe reveals that the notification that invites the tender (NIT) for this work is not published in the national newspaper as referred to and false letters allegedly sent to the Information Department instead,” CBI said in FIR.