FIR against 15 including CE in Sitamarhi, 2 Jr Engineers arrested

Arun Lata Sharma

Sitamarhi : Dumra police in Sitamarhi district on June 25, 2017, night, arrested two contractual Junior Engineers of Water Resources Department (WRD), Bagmati Division,  Pradeep Kumar and Rajiv Kumar from their residence in connection with an embezzlement case.

An FIR was lodged against them recently by Executive Engineer (EE), Bagmati Division, Ram Vinay Sinha following direction from Engineer-in-Chief, Flood Control, WRD, Patna. Brahmputra Infrastructure Company Ltd (BICL), under the supervision of Bagmati Division officials, had to do earth filling work and widening of embankments of Adhawara river between Bathanaha and Pupri in
Sitamarhi district in 2012-14 at an estimated cost of Rs 3.4 crore. They did not finish the work properly that triggered protest from the villagers.

Altogether 15 persons were named in the FIR including the then Chief Engineer (CE), WRD, Muzaffarpur, Gunja Lal Ram, and company’s CMD, BICL,  Sanjit Prithani. As per SHO Sujit Kumar Chaudhary more arrests might follow.