CBI books 3 from TS for accepting bribes

17 Controller of Explosives staff indulged in graft

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered criminal cases against three Telangana-origin persons among 17 employees of the Controller of Explosives for accepting bribes from vendors. The bribe amount was deposited into the accounts of, among others, the three Telangana persons.

Sandhya Venugopal Rani Jangalapalli, stenographer of Petroleum and Explosives Safety

THE CBI said the bribe was deposited in accounts of Sandhya’s husband Venugopal, and her brother Narasimha Venkata Kalyana Chakravarthy

Organisation (PESO) allegedly collected bribes from vendors under the instructions of the Controller of Explosives of Gujarat, Anil Kumar Yadav, a former deputy controller of Mumbai. The CBI said the bribe amount was deposited into the accounts of Sandhya’s husband Venugopal, and her brother Narasimha Venkata Kalyana Chakravarthy of Saroornagar.

The CBI said `40,000 was deposited in the account of Chakravarthy on November 1, 2018; `30,000 and `20,000 on December 18 and December 20, 2018 in the account of Venugopal.

The CBI said that it had found during inquiry that LPG supplier Dilipkumar B. Modi, proprietor of Falgun Bharat Gas, had deposited `40,000 in the account of Chakravarthy.

The CBI said between October 1, 2018, and January 31, 2019, about

`8.99,900 had been deposited in nine bank accounts of the relatives and colleagues of Anil Yadav and Sandya Rani.

Apart from this, between December 5,

2015, when it was opened, and December

31, 2018, Chakravarthy’s accounted received

`14,74,500 from various places including Vadodara, Mumbai, Delhi. The account was operated by Chakravarthy, the CBI said.