During the probe, it was found that iron and cement were brought from Mahadeo Impacts, which was later found to be non-existent. Vinay Bansal was a partner with his father in Mahadeo Impacts.
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A Delhi court rejected the bail plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew Vinay Bansal arrested in connection with an alleged scam worth Rs 6 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD).
Vinay Bansal is the son of Kejriwal’s late brother-in-law Surender Bansal.
On Thursday, special Judge Sanjay Khanagwal remanded Bansal to 14 days in judicial custody.
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On 9 May, the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) arrested Bansal from his residence in west Delhi’s Pitampura.
The ACB had registered an FIR on 8 May, 2017, after a complaint that Surender Bansal got a tender below 46 per cent on behalf of company Renu Construction, on the estimated cost of Rs 4.9 lakh.
Three FIRs, including one against a company run by the Chief Minister’s brother-in-law Surender Bansal, were registered by the ACB. Vinay Bansal was a partner in the firm owned by his father.
Three companies, including Renu Constructions (owned by Bansal, Kamal Singh and Pawan Kumar), were included in the FIRs.
During the investigation, ACB with the help of CPWD had conducted examination of the materials used in the project and sent all their materials to lab for quality check.
During the probe, it was found that iron and cement were brought from Mahadeo Impacts, which was later found to be non-existent. Vinay Bansal was a partner with his father in Mahadeo Impacts.
It was also mentioned in the complaint that the quality of iron and cement supplied were not up to the mark.
The arrest was made by ACB after their investigators found that fake bills were attached for materials that weren’t even supplied and some of the bills were of companies that do not exist or supply those materials, the report added.
In a complaint lodged earlier, Rahul Sharma, founder of the Roads Anti-Corruption Organisation (RACO), had alleged that Kejriwal and PWD Minister Satyendra Jain misused their office for grant of contracts to Bansal. However, they were not named in the FIR.
RACO, an organisation which claims to monitor construction projects in the national capital, had alleged that a firm linked to Bansal was involved in financial irregularities in building a drainage system in north-west Delhi. The complainant had claimed that even the bid and its technical marks were manipulated.
It was also alleged that the bills sent to the PWD for unfinished works were “false and fabricated”.
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