New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday registered cases in connection with alleged fraudulent appointments in Bokaro Steel Plant, naming kin of a former Central minister, a former governor and a retired high court judge.
The agency carried out searches at nearly 40 locations across nine cities after registering two separate cases.
The cases relate to alleged irregularities in the appointments in the middle and junior management level in the public sector undertaking in 2008.
A former executive director of the plant and other former senior officers have also been named as accused.
CBI officials said the agency has named junior managers S.M. Razi, Rajkumar Jatia and Yogesh Chandra Patnaik.
The officials said they are relatives of a former governor, a former Central minister, who is now a Rajya Sabha candidate, and a former high court judge respectively.
It is alleged that these candidates were among those favoured in the appointment process.
The searches were carried out at 40 locations in Bokaro, Ranchi, Patna, Arrah (Bihar), Ghaziabad, New Delhi, Bhilai, Bhopal, Jabalpur and Bhubaneshwar.
