CBI books former CEO of cantonment board in corruption case

New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act against a senior officer of the Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES).
The case has been registered against Ajay Kumar, IDES 2012.
He was the former CEO-cum-member-secretary of the Deolali Cantonment Board in Nashik. CBI also conducted searches at Kumar's properties in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Bihar's Jamui.
The action was taken after the Deputy Secretary (Vigilance) in the Ministry of Defence registered a complaint against Kumar.
The FIR into the matter reads that Ajay Kumar, IDES (2012), while serving as CEO-cum-Member-Secretary of the Cantonment Board, Deolali, Nashik, in 2021, approved the layout plan owned by Shah and Shah Land Developers, Bhagur, Nashik. It fell under the jurisdiction of the Cantonment Board.
After seven days, Kumar relinquished his charge as CEO of the Cantt. Board Deolali, as he was transferred out and posted to Bengaluru. Immediately thereafter, six plots from the same land parcel costing Rs nine lakh each, which are within the boundary of the Cantonment Board, Deolali, were purchased in the name of the parents of Ajay Kumar.
It is pertinent to mention that Ajay Kumar had shown his parents as dependents with no source of income. Further, a special power of attorney in respect of these six properties was given by the parents of Ajay Kumar in the name of his wife, Smita Kumari. (ANI)