The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an alleged case of corruption against Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd (MEIL), eight officials of NMDC Limited and NMDC Iron and Steel Plant (NISP) Limited, and two officials of MECON Limited, which come under the Ministry of Steel, in connection with a work contract worth over ₹314.57 crore.
Through electoral bonds, MEIL had donated ₹584 crore to the BJP, ₹195 crore to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), and ₹85 crore to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), besides ₹37 crore to the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), ₹28 crore to Telugu Desam Party (TDP), and ₹18 crore to the Indian National Congress. Its subsidiary, Western U.P. Power Transmission Company Limited, donated ₹110 crore to the Congress and ₹80 crore to the BJP, as reported earlier.
The CBI registered the First Information Report (FIR) on March 31. Among the accused are MEIL, its general manager Subhash Chandra Sangras; NMDC Limited’s executive director (now retired) Prasant Dash; NMDC director (production)/NISP director Dilip Kumar Mohanty; NISP deputy general manager Pradeep Kumar Bhuyan; deputy manager (survey) Naresh Babu, senior manager Suvro Banerjee, and chief general manager (finance) L. Krishna Mohan (now retired).
