CBI’s Guwahati Crackdown: NHIDCL Executive Director Caught with ₹10 Lakh Bribe, ₹2.62 Crore Cash, 9 Flats and Fleet of Luxury Cars Unearthed
Guwahati/New Delhi: In one of the biggest corruption hauls of the year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday busted a massive bribery and disproportionate assets racket involving a senior official of the National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL).
The agency arrested the Executive Director and Regional Officer of NHIDCL, Guwahati, red-handed while accepting a bribe of ₹10 lakh from a private contractor on October 14, 2025.
The bribe was allegedly taken for issuing a favourable extension of time (EOT) and a completion certificate for the 4-laning project on National Highway-37 between Demow and Moran Bypass in Assam.
Following the trap, the CBI launched extensive searches at his offices and residences in Guwahati, Ghaziabad, and Imphal, unearthing assets and investments that stunned investigators.
According to official sources, ₹2.62 crore in cash, documents for nine premium apartments, one office space, and three residential plots in Delhi-NCR, a luxury apartment and plot in Bengaluru, and four premium apartments with two plots in Guwahati were recovered.
The sleuths also found records of two homestead plots and agricultural land in Imphal West, along with six high-end vehicles, two luxury watches worth lakhs, and a 100-gram silver bar.
Most of these properties, the agency suspects, were purchased in the name of the officer and his family members, many of them grossly undervalued on paper.
The CBI had registered the case based on specific source information against the accused officer and two representatives of a private company.
Both the Executive Director and one private individual were arrested during the trap operation and produced before the Special CBI Court in Guwahati, which remanded them to three days of police custody.
Officials said verification of the seized properties and investments is underway, and more skeletons are likely to tumble out as the probe deepens.
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