CBI raids Central Railway office in Bihar's Vaishali; top official taken into custody

CBI sleuths interrogated Controller Abhay Kumar at the Zonal Office of Hajipur East Central Railway in Vaishali and later took him along with them.

Vaishali: The CBI on Thursday took a top railway official at the Zonal Office of Hajipur East Central Railway in Bihar's Vaishali into custody even as it also questioned another railway official at the Sonpur Railway Division, officials said on Friday. It was not immediately known in which case the raids were carried out.

According to the reliable sources, a CBI team of six officials arrived at the Hajipur East Central Railway's zonal office late in the evening on Thursday. At the Hajipur East Central Railway's zonal office, the CBI sleuths interrogated Controller Abhay Kumar for around two hours.

After a long interrogation, the CBI officials took Abhay Kumar with them, sources said. After the raid at the Hajipur East Central Railway's zonal office, the team reached the DRM office of Sonpur Railway Division, where Chief Medical Superintendent Manoj Kant Gupta was also interrogated at length as per sources.

CPRO of East Central Railway Virendra Kumar confirmed that the CBI team had quizzed Controller Abhay Kumar and no formal information has been given by the CBI in this regard. "The CBI team had come to the operational department of East Central Railway Zonal Office from where the Controller Abhay Kumar has been taken with them. No formal information has been given by the CBI. The CBI team has given any reason for the raid," CPRO East Central Railway Virendra Kumar said.

Earlier in January, the CBI received prosecution sanction for former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad in connection with the alleged “land-for-job” scam which they claimed unfolded during the then Railway Minister's tenure. It also informed the trial court to enable further legal proceedings.