New Delhi, July 1 -- The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi Government has arrested an executive engineer and a private contractor in an over Rs 4.6 crore scam involving the Irrigation and Flood Control (I&FC) Department.
The duo is accused of orchestrating a fraudulent payment of crores for civil works that were never executed. The arrested individuals have been identified as Gagan Kureel, then executive engineer of the CD-VII Division (under suspension since December 2023) and Arun Gupta, proprietor of M/s Baba Construction Company.
The scam pertains to drainage and road construction projects in Siraspur village, North Delhi, which were found to exist only on paper. An internal inquiry by a committee of engineers, formed on the d...