advertisement
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday, 16 March, arrested a professor of Jamia Millia Islamia, working in the Department of Civil Engineering, along with two others from a private company, over a bribery case of Rs 1 lakh.
The CBI said that the professor, identified as Mohammed Khalid Moin, was caught red-handed accepting a hefty amount of bribe from the architects of Vyom Architect in Okhla, identified as Prakhar Pawar and Abid Khan, to issue structural stability certificates, IANS reported.
However, the accused has been apprehended for a separate bribery case, and not in connection to the Chintels Paradiso collapse.
The official mentioned that the premises of the accused was being searched thoroughly.
The probe team till now has found Rs 30 lakh in cash and documents related to Rs 1.2 crore in Moin's bank accounts, apart from certain documents related to builders and so on, he added.
"The arrested accused will be produced before the designated court at Delhi," the CBI official said.
(With inputs from IANS and Hindustan Times.)
(At The Quint, we question everything. Play an active role in shaping our journalism by becoming a member today.)