CBI on Friday arrested the director of a Guwahati-based firm in Delhi in connection with the Rs 1 crore bribery case.  This arrest came after the arrest of a senior Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official. 

CBI on Friday said it has arrested the director of a Guwahati-based firm in Delhi. The accused has been identified as Pawan Baid, director of the ABCI Infrastructures Pvt Ltd. He is allegedly involved in the case of Rs 1 crore bribe paid on January 17 to the relative of Indian Railway Engineering Service officer Mahendra Singh Chauhan who was posted as the chief administrative officer (CAO)/Construction in the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) at Maligaon, the NFR headquarters in Guwahati.

A media report quoted a CBI official as saying that a non-bailable warrant was issued on January 23 against Baid by a Special CBI court as he was not cooperating with the investigation team. Since January 17, Baid was evading arrest. Finally, he was arrested from Delhi. CBI has registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act against Chauhan and others including deputy chief engineer Hem Chand Borah, assistant executive engineer Laxmi Kant Verma, Baid, Bhupendra Rawat and Indar Singh.

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