NDA scam: Col A K Singh gave over a lakh to friend

The Central Bureau of Investigations Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday said that of the Rs 74.5 lakh Col Anil Kumar Singh the presiding officer of examinations at National Defence Academy received as bribe,Rs 1.5 lakh was given to his friend,a retired army officer.

The Central Bureau of Investigations Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBI-ACB) on Wednesday said that of the Rs 74.5 lakh Col Anil Kumar Singh the presiding officer of examinations at National Defence Academy (NDA) received as bribe,Rs 1.5 lakh was given to his friend,a retired army officer. Col Singhs friend in turn used the money to pay his sons fees in Symbiosis College.

The CBI-ACB told CBI special judge D R Mahajan that at Col Singhs behest,a witness burnt some documents on June 23 when they had raided the NDA. Those partially burnt papers have been recovered and CBI wants to decipher the matter written on them, said CBI special prosecutor Vivek Saxena,while seeking Singhs CBI custody for six more days. He added that the CBI needs to recover the Rs 1.5 lakh Singh allegedly paid to the retired army officer.

The CBI-ACB also seized a pen drive and Singhs laptop on Tuesday. The CBI wants to confront Singh with the data recovered from the them, Saxena told the court.

Singhs counsel,S K Jain,objected to the CBIs demand of extension of Singhs custody. The court denied CBI Singhs custody and remanded him in magisterial custody till July 25. For the purpose of recovery of Rs 1.5 lakh which the accused allegedly gave a witness who paid it to Symbiosis College towards fees,the further CBI custody of the accused is not required, the court said. The court added that Singhs custody was not required for confrontation of the accused with the data recovered from the pen drive and laptop.

Singh immediately tendered his bail application,which will be heard on Thursday along with that of the other four accused Col Kulbir Singh,staff officer to NDA commandant,Balkrishna Kanojia,a food stall owner,Kanojias employee Vishnu Prasad Sharma and NDA employee Ramesh Gaikwad.

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NDA scam: Col A K Singh gave over a lakh to friend

The Central Bureau of Investigations Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday said that of the Rs 74.5 lakh Col Anil Kumar Singh  the presiding officer of examinations at National Defence Academy received as bribe,Rs 1.5 lakh was given to his friend,a retired army officer.

NDA scam: Col A K Singh gave over a lakh to friend

The Central Bureau of Investigations Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday said that of the Rs 74.5 lakh Col Anil Kumar Singh the presiding officer of examinations at National Defence Academy received as bribe,Rs 1.5 lakh was given to his friend,a retired army officer.