Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday disclosed that it has arrested Subedar Ojha, Manager (Secretariat) & PS to CMD Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) after recovery of Rs. 3.85 crore in cash from his residence during searches conducted on August 17th 2024. This amount was allegedly amassed from several contractors and officials in lieu of favours for their operations in NCL, Singrauli.

CBI has also arrested Ravi Shankar Singh, a middleman and Proprietor of M/s Sangam Engineering, Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly acting as a conduit between various contractors / businessmen and several officials of Northern Coalfields Limited and was facilitating and delivering bribes to these officials of Northern Coalfields Limited.

An associate of Ravi Shankar Singh of M/s Sangam Engineering, Singrauli, M.P, Diwesh Singh, was also arrested red handed while delivering Rs 5 Lakh bribe to Joy Joseph Damle, Dy SP, ACB, CBI, Jabalpur in lieu of obtaining favourable report in the matters of complaints/investigation pending against them in CBI. Ravi Shankar Singh and his associate were acting as a middleman between the NCL (Northern Coalfields Ltd) officers and JJ Damle, who has also been arrested.

It was alleged that on August 16th 2024, on the instructions of Ravi Shankar Singh, Ajay Verma employee of Ravi Singh had collected the aforesaid undue advantage of Rs 5 Lakh from Lt. Colonel Basant Kumar Singh (Retd), Chief Manager (Administration), NCL, Singrauli. The bribe amount was allegedly sent by Subedar Ojha and on August 17th , Ravi Shankar Singh instructed Diwesh Singh to deliver this amount to Dy SP JJ Damle of ACB Jabalpur, CBI.

Earlier, a regular case u/s 7, 7A, 8 of PC Act (As amended in 2018) read with Section 61(2) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered against (i) Ravi Shankar Singh, Director of M/s Sangam Engineering, Singrauli (M.P.); (ii) Lt Colonel Basant Kumar Singh(Retd), Manager (Admin), NCL, Singrauli, (iii) Subedar Ojha, Manager(Secretariat),NCL, Singrauli; (iv) Mr. Diwesh Singh, private person (associate of Ravi Shankar Singh); (v) Joy Joseph Damle, Dy.SP, CBI, ACB, Jabalpur, other officials and unknown others.

Searches were conducted at several places in Singrauli, Jabalpur and Noida. During searches, huge amount of cash, digital devices and several incriminating documents have been recovered.

Central Bureau Of Investigation CBI NORTHERN COALFIELDS Subedar Ojha Ravi Shankar Singh Sangam Engineering Singrauli Northern Coalfields Limited Diwesh Singh Joy Joseph Damle DSP ACB Lt Colonel Basant Kumar Singh