The Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited (BECIL) general manager and three other family business owners have been detained by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly offering favours in exchange for bribes in the form of expedited bill clearance and the awarding of government contracts.
Ramit Lala, the general manager of BECIL; Monika Dhawan, the managing director of Fusion Corporation Solution (FCS); Charu Khanna, the business head; their father, J.M.P. Khanna; and Vishnu, Ms. Khanna's chauffeur, were among those named.
Under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, BECIL is a centrally located public sector organisation. Its general manager has been charged with working with unidentified officials in exchange for sizable payments to frame and alter the qualifying criteria for private companies participating in the bidding process, as well as providing expedited payment of their outstanding invoices.
Through content production facilities, terrestrial transmission facilities, satellite broadcasting facilities, and cable broadcasting facilities, the public sector enterprise offers project consulting services and turnkey solutions for radio and television broadcasting engineering in India and abroad. It outsources the work to other private consultants or contractors.
According to the allegations, the sisters and their father were working with Mr. Lala to pursue the work orders for various ministries and government agencies sponsored by BECIL as well as to get the outstanding debts paid. Ms. Khanna is accused of managing the associated payments as well as negotiating the bribe amount with governmental employees.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), Ms. Dhawan has asked Mr. Lala for favours in order to receive work orders for projects involving social media and websites that were being floated by several ministries and were being handled by BECIL.
He inquired about the outstanding invoices with her on April 17. She let him know that every bill had been paid in full, with the exception of the ones pertaining to the work done for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The general manager asked for a meeting to discuss this.
The primary accuser requested a meeting with Ms. Khanna in Delhi on April 19. She informed him that the payment wasn't set up yet. After two days, her sister asked Mr. Lala to make sure that her business received the order from the Jal Shakti and Tourism Ministries. She was told by the official that he had already handled the job relating to the Tourism Ministry and would take the appropriate action for the other contract.
According to the FIR, Ms. Khanna allegedly told her sister on April 24 that she was weary of making excuses since Mr. Lala had been hounding her for the payment of the bribe sum. The money was to be sent through the driver, so Ms. Dhawan urged her father to make the necessary arrangements.
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