New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Deputy General Manager (DGM) of Oil India Limited (OIL) posted in Assam's Duliajan and a private company executive for their involvement in a bribery case, the agency said on Monday. The Oil India official has allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 7 lakh, out of which he is alleged to have spent Rs 3,73,550 on purchasing gold.
According to officials, Prayas Chakravorty, a DGM of Oil India, had allegedly demanded the bribe from Jyoti Kumar Singh, the DGM of Noida-based United Drilling Tools Limited, for the award of certain contract in favour of the private company. Both were arrested and produced before a CBI special court in Ghaziabad on Monday.
"A case was registered by CBI on 03.05.2025 against four accused including Deputy General Manager of Oil India Ltd (OIL), Duliajan, Assam; Managing Director & DGM (Sales & Marketing) of Noida based private company; said private company and unknown public servants on allegations that accused public servant in connivance with accused DGM (Sales & Marketing) of Noida based private company and unknown public servants, had been indulging in corrupt and illegal activities of obtaining undue-advantage/ bribe in-lieu of facilitating the issuance of award of work and clearance of bills of the said private contractors/ suppliers, thereby making huge wrongful gains to themselves and corresponding wrongful loss to the Union Exchequer," said the CBI in a statement.
"It was also alleged that accused public servant (Chakravorty) demanded 70 grams of gold ornaments for himself as well as for some other unknown public servant from accused DGM (Singh) of said private company in lieu of award of certain contract in favour of him," the statement said. Singh told the accused official that he could not arrange the gold jewellery and would pay in cash, the officials said.
United Drilling Tools MD Kunal Gupta, also an accused in the FIR, arranged Rs 7 lakh to be delivered to Chakravorty, according to the statement. On receiving the cash, Chakravorty allegedly purchased gold coins worth more than Rs 3.70 lakh from a shop in Noida and took home the remaining cash amount on the same day.
"The CBI laid a trap immediately thereafter and caught the accused public servant red-handed with Rs 3.34 lakh cash (approx) and documents related to the purchase of gold from the possession of accused public servant," said the statement.
"Searches were conducted at residential and official premises of the accused at various places in Delhi, Noida, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia which led to the recovery of gold jewellery (obtained as bribe), over Rs 30 lakh cash (from private persons), mobile devices and several incriminating documents," said the statement.