Feed by: Hemant K Batra of Kaden Boriss Legal
CBI has recommended to the Defence Ministry blacklisting of six firms, including four from abroad, as a sequel to its probe into the Ordnance Factory Board scam.
Its reported in the media that the apex investigating agency, in its letter, has mentioned four international firms – Singapore Technologies Kinetics Ltd (STK), Israel Military Industries Ltd (IMI), Rheinmetall Air Defence (RAD), Zurich and Cooperation Defence in Russia – to be blacklisted.
Besides, two Indian firms – T S Kisan and Company Pvt Ltd (New Delhi) and R K Machines Tools Ltd (Ludhiana) – have also been named in the CBI communication to the Defence Ministry sent earlier this week, they said.
The letter is advisory nature and it is up to the Defence Ministry to accept the recommendation or not, the source said.
In June, the CBI had filed a 2,700-page charge-sheet in a special CBI court in Kolkata against former Director General of Ordnance factory Board, Sudipta Ghosh and 11 others for graft.
A case was registered by CBI on May 17, 2009 under different Sections of IPC and Prevention of the Corruption Act against Ghosh and others.
The matter will come up in the CBI court on July 31.
