Penalised Contractor fires At Senior Railway Official
By
Express News Service
01st June 2015
BHUBANESWAR: The Police Commissionerate on Sunday arrested Chairman
of ARSS group of companies Subash Agarwal for his alleged involvement in
firing at a Joint General Manager (GM) of Rail Vikash Nigam Limited
(RVNL) on Saturday.
Agarwal was produced in the sub-divisional magistrate’s court which rejected his bail and sent him to judicial custody.
Earlier
in the day, Agarwal was detained by Chandrasekharpur police on the
basis of a complaint lodged by the Joint GM of RVNL Ajay Kumar who was
shot at by three miscreants.
Kumar escaped narrowly as the bullet
passed close to his leg and pierced his trousers first and then rear
seat of the SUV in which he was travelling.
Subash Agarwal
Kumar, in his complaint stated that Agarwal was involved in the attack.
“Agarwal had threatened me twice in the past as I had imposed penalties
on ARSS for not delivering quality work in a project the firm had taken
up,” said Kumar.He added that the work order for developing a
broad gauge line between Budhapank station in Angul district to
Baghuapal in Jajpur district was awarded to a Ghaziabad based company
which had sub-leased the contract to ARSS.
Kumar was transferred
to Odisha in 2012 and later appointed as Project Director of the broad
gauge project whose estimated cost amounted to `149 crore. Over the last
one year, Kumar was not satisfied with the quality of work carried out
by ARSS and imposed penalty on the firm’s bills multiple times.
“The
sub-lessee did not employ qualified professionals for supervising the
work nor did the quality of work was acceptable. I had imposed a penalty
of around `22 lakh on four bills of the company,” Kumar told Express.
The Police Commissionerate has pressed its special squad to trace the assailants who shot Kumar.
If sources are to be believed, one among them has already been detained and is being interrogated.
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