Lucknow. Charges were fixed against the suspended executive engineer of Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam, who was demanding money from a contractor on mobile phone. On the basis of the report of the forensic lab matching the voice of the conversation between the executive engineer and the contractor, Power Corporation took major action against the accused on Saturday. The executive engineer who demanded the bribe was sacked.
An audio of a conversation between the then Executive Engineer of Gomtinagar Vidyut Vitran Nigam Vijay Shankar Johri and contractor OP Singh had gone viral on the Internet media on April 1 last year. In this audio, Vijay Shankar Johri was demanding money from the contractor. On this, the MD of Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam suspended the Executive Engineer. In front of the committee formed to investigate the matter, the suspended executive engineer, on 16 June 2021, was given a letter on behalf of the contractor not having any relation with him in this case. Wasn’t even authorized.
The Executive Engineer made a statement before the committee on 11 November 2021 that his voice is not there in the viral audio. On this, the committee decided to get the voice of the accused executive engineer tested through a forensic lab. IFO Forensic Standard and Research Company took the voice sample of the executive engineer on January 7 this year. In which the words of his viral audio were repeated.
The viral audio in the CD and the voice samples taken were matched. Both the voices came out of the same person. On which the inquiry committee wrote a letter to the Power Corporation for investigation against the accused executive engineer. Corporation President M Devraj, making a strong remark, ordered the dismissal of the accused Executive Engineer Vijay Shankar Johri from service as per the Personnel (Discipline and Appeal) Regulations, 2020.
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