Railway goods transported to Kolhapur: CBI

PUNE: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Pune, on Monday told the court that two of the five suspects arrested for allegedly misappropriating 1,000 bags of elastic rail clips worth Rs 27 lakh have claimed that the goods were transported to a jaggery market in Kolhapur.
However, the CBI said that it is in the process of verifying the information given during custodial interrogation by senior engineer, Satyajit Das, who was then posted at the stores department in Ghorpadi and Rajesh Kumar Shah, director of M/s Manish Forging Private Ltd at Raipur.The duo along with railway broker Indrajeet Singh, the firm's authorized signatory Ishwari Prasad and his accountant, Manas Ranjan, both from Raipur, were arrested on July 15.
Inspector Narayan Saste presented Das and others before the special court, following expiry of their police custody remand.
He filed a plea to extend their police custody remand for seven days.
Special public prosecutor Vivek Saxena submitted before the court that the custodial interrogation of the suspects was essential to seize the goods and probe the involvement of the railway officials and private persons involved in the crime.