Overview

• A CBI court in Ahmedabad on July 21 sentenced former Western Railway divisional engineer Harish Kishore Gupta to three years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 1 lakh for soliciting a Rs 5,000 bribe to issue a Rs 19.91 lakh work order.
• In a separate hearing the court handed eight ex-Railway employees five-year jail terms and Rs 5 lakh fines each for criminal conspiracy, theft and misconduct in a 2002 question paper leak targeting assistant station master recruitment.
• The paper leak case, first registered in August 2002, alleged that convicts collected between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1 lakh from aspirants before the written exam.
• On July 19 the CBI arrested proclaimed offender Nasreen Taj in Bengaluru for allegedly diverting Rs 12.63 crore in fraudulent Syndicate Bank loans and remanded her to judicial custody.
• These outcomes illustrate the CBI’s role in closing protracted graft inquiries and enforcing accountability across public contracting, recruitment and banking sectors.