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JAIPUR: In yet another glaring expose of institutionalized graft and corporate-bureaucratic nexus, the Central Bureau of Investigation (#CBI), Anti-Corruption Branch (#ACB), Jaipur, has registered a regular case against senior railway personnel and private executives for orchestrating an elaborate kickback scheme. The case, registered under Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, alongside multiple provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018), details how public infrastructure works are routinely held hostage to extortionate commission cuts and illegal financial channels.
The First Information Report (FIR No. RC0302026A00012), dated August 13, 2026, names Ms. #SangeetaKumari, Office Superintendent at North Western Railway (#NWR), Jaipur; Gaurav Gupta and Sunil Dutt, both employees of private firm M/s Dinesh Engineers Limited (#DEPL); the company M/s DEPL itself headquartered in Navi Mumbai; along with other unidentified public servants and private individuals. The case stems from credible source information revealing widespread criminal conspiracy and illicit gratification surrounding the processing and clearance of bills for high-value railway signaling and telecommunication infrastructure, specifically involving tower erection and optical fibre cable (#OFC) laying contracts awarded to M/s DEPL.
The documented timeline paints a disturbing picture of an entrenched pay-to-play culture within the public procurement system. According to investigative inputs, when M/s DEPL submitted extensive project bills—including a ₹6.20-crore claim for tower erection and another ₹4.70-crore bill for OFC laying—to the office of the Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer (#CSTE) Project at Jagatpura, Jaipur, official duties were swiftly reduced to transactional negotiations.
During conversations starting in June 2026, Ms. Sangeeta Kumari explicitly demanded kickbacks as a prerequisite for clearing the files. In response, representatives of the private contractor readily engaged in arranging illicit funding, assuring railway officials that the required bribe amounts would be organized directly through their Mumbai corporate office and channeled through illegal hawala routes under the direction of senior executive Sunil Dutt.
The investigation details how administrative milestones were systematically monetized. After the initial tower erection bills were forwarded to senior superiors for clearance, the contractor pursued the pending OFC payments. Rather than demonstrating administrative neutrality, Ms. Sangeeta Kumari brazenly demanded an escalation of her bribe percentage over the previously agreed cut and further acted as a middleman for the accounts wing, instructing the contractor’s liaison to route additional kickbacks to one S Sanghi on behalf of Senior Office Superintendent S N Bairwa.
Discussions inside the firm even revealed systemic pre-budgeting of bribes at every critical project phase, from the initial Acceptance of Tender to routine billing. Delivery of these illicit payoffs soon followed, with reports confirming that a bribe installment was personally delivered in Jaipur on August 8, 2026, to Dy CSTE Vikram Singh Shekhawat, followed by scheduled hand-offs to other staff on August 13, 2026, precipitating the CBI’s intervention.
This case exposes the pervasive decay in public office where critical national infrastructure projects are treated by corrupt officials as extortion tools, while private corporations actively normalize bribery, hawala laundering, and unethical influence to grease the wheels of administration. Entrusted to Dy SP of Police Rakesh Prajapat under the supervision of DIG Manisha Choudhary, the probe stands as a damning indictment of both a compromised administrative machinery and the mercenary corporate ethos that willingly subverts public interest for unlawful profit.