2. The essential facts, leading to the filing of this instant Criminal
Revisional application, are as under: –
a. The CBI/SPE/ACB/Kolkata registered an F.I.R., being No. RC
0102013A0008 of 2013 on 30.03.2013 on the basis of source
information alleging therein that Abhijit Gupta, the then Section
Engineer, S. E. Rly, Kharagpur and others have given undue
favour to the accused Private Firms M/S Efftronics Systems Pvt.
Ltd, M/S Aster Electrosoft Pvt. Ltd and M/S Ambitious
Enterprises, by allowing these firms to install Electronic Train
Indicator Boards (ETIBs) at the Andul-Baruia-Deulti stations,
Sankrail-Nalpur-Jakpur stations, and Tamluk-Belda-Jhargram-
Digha stations, all under the Kharagpur division.
b. Even without the integration of ETIBs with the Existing Public
Address systems and the incomplete work, the said officials of S.E.
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Railway released the full payment along with security deposit and
performance guarantee to the accused contractors, thereby
committing offences U/S 120B r/w 420, 468 and 471 of IPC and
Sections 13(2) r/w 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act . As
a result, the S.E. Railway suffered a pecuniary loss of Rs.
12,44,762.34/-.
