The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently raided locations in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Hyderabad in connection with a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) scam. A DJB official was arrested for accepting a Rs 3 crore bribe, and awarding a Rs 38 crore tender to a contractor without the necessary capacity and qualifications.
Anil Kumar Agrawal submitted a tender based on bogus documents, which DJB engineer Jagdish Arora approved. The contract involved installing flow metres, which NKG Infrastructure could not handle. So they subcontracted the work to Integral Industries. A bribe of Rs 3.91 crore was taken to approve the tender.
Out of the Rs 3.19 crore bribe, Rs 2 crore went to others and the Aam Aadmi Party of Delhi for election funding. The ED registered a money laundering case, arrested Arora, contractor Anil Kumar Agrawal, and sub-contractor D.K. Mittal, and sent them to judicial custody.
Officials found Rs 41 lakh in cash and seized documents during the raids. The ED seized properties worth Rs 8 crore and continued to raid Arora’s partners’ residences in Ahmedabad.