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Street lighting case: City court to frame charges against six by Jayant Sriram

A Delhi court will frame charges on March 1 against six persons, including four MCD officials, for their alleged role in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) street lighting scam. One of the 10 Games-related scams being probed by the CBI, it caused a loss of about Rs 1.5 crore to the government. In an order issued on Friday, Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chadha said that prima facie, a case was made out against the four officials for entering into a conspiracy with a private firm, Sweska Powertech Engineers Private Ltd, and its two co-promoters, J P Singh and T P Singh. The court discharged Mehul Karnik, an official of Philips India, stating that he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. In 2008, the MCD floated a tender for improving street lights in the city. As much as 101.56 km of road was covered in the contract, bagged by Sweska Engineering, a Rajouri Garden-based firm, for Rs 34.53 crore. The CBI had alleged in its chargesheet that a clutch of senior MCD officials headed by D K Sugan, its superintending engineer, had conspired with the directors of Sweska and an official of Philips India to inflate bills submitted by them — causing a loss of Rs 1,42,83,000 to the government. Besides Sugan, whom the court described as the kingpin, the other MCD officials who face charges are Executive Engineer O P Mahala, Accountant Raju V and Gurcharan Singh, a tender clerk. The court said that no case could be made out against Mehul Karnik, the official from Philips India, as the prosecution had based its case against him only on the fact that he was present at a meeting held in Sugan’s office in May 2008, when the tenders were opened and bills allegedly overwritten. The judge noted that as per the meeting records, Karnik had participated in the meeting thinking that Philips had also submitted a tender for the contract and was, in fact, shocked to realise otherwise. The court ruled that his presence in the meeting could not be taken as an indication of his participation in the criminal conspiracy. “The accused, Mehul Karnik, was representing a rival company. He stood to gain nothing... He simply happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.