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Ashok Leyland supplied sub-standard DTC buses

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The anti-corruption cell of the CBI (CBI-ACB) on Friday filed a chargesheet in the court of Additional Sessions Judge D R Mahajan against nine persons, including former director of the Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT), five employees of Ashok Leyland Ltd (ALL) and a private firm for allegedly supplying buses to Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) in which substandard marine sheets (plywood) were used. Incidentally, the same plywood was allegedly used in CNG buses for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Three CIRT employees including Balasubramanian, the then director from Chennai; Medha Hemant Bawadekar, the then head of Technical Directorate of CIRT from Sadashiv Peth; and Deepika Nande, the then head of engineering division of CIRT from Aundh; five employees of ALL at Chennai deputy manager Ved Prakash Gautam from Uttar Pradesh, general manager Ashok Kumar Chopra from Alwar in Rajasthan, assistant general manager (quality) Vinay Bharadwaj also from Alwar in Rajasthan, deputy manager (quality and control) Vikas Verma (also from Alwar, Achyut Medhekar (54), manufacturing head, Power Solutions Businesses from Erandawane and supplier of ALL, Vivek Gupta (37), director of Pragati Hightech Products (pvt) Ltd at Haryana and the company were charge-sheeted by the CBI-ACB. According to the chargesheet, though the samples had failed flammability test, the manufacture of buses using the same plywood had already begun. Ashok Leyland has denied the charges. As far as quality control is concerned, it said, besides internally conducted tests, as many as 76 items per bus are tested by government labs like CIRT and ARAI and added that any component that does not meet internal quality standards or lab tests is summarily rejected.

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