CBI books GAIL’s marketing head E S Ranganathan in bribery case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked Gas Authority of India Constrained (GAIL)’s Director (Advertising and marketing) E S Ranganathan in a bribery scandal involving the sale of petrochemicals produced by GAIL at a discount. A CBI statement reported, that the investigative agency performed searches at the premises of the accused at Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Panchkula, and Karnal amongst other folks. This led to the restoration of somewhere around Rs eighty four lakh so much which incorporates restoration of Rs 75 lakh from a Gurgaon-based mostly private human being.

The other accused in the scenario are Pawan Gaur (a private human being), Rajesh Kumar (director of Rishabh Polychem, Delhi), N Ramakrishnan Nair (a Gurgaon resident), Saurabh Gupta (affiliated with United Polymer Industries, Panchkula), and Aditya Bansal (affiliated with Bansal Agencies, Karnal). CBI reported that these five accused have been arrested in this scenario till now. United Polymer Industries and Bansal Agencies have also been named in the CBI’s first details report (FIR).

CBI also reported that searches have been continuing at the premises of Ranganathan.

The CBI has alleged that Ranganathan was “indulging into corrupt and unlawful things to do in conspiracy with other accused who have been performing as his intermediary, by getting bribe from the private businesses purchasing petrochemical items marketed by the GAIL.”

CBI reported that it laid a entice and apprehended a private human being and a Director of a Non-public Enterprise based mostly in Delhi with an alleged bribe amount of money of Rs ten lakh which was collected on behalf of Ranganathan.

According to the CBI’s FIR, the GAIL Director (Advertising and marketing) had demanded a bribe of Rs 15 lakh for issuing the discount buy in favour of the beneficiary businesses.

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