Overview
- Sanjay Badaya, detained at Delhi airport around 2 a.m. Monday after a lookout notice and an immigration alert, was brought to Jaipur and arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
- A special ACB court in Jaipur remanded Badaya to three days of police custody, while it sent former PHED minister Mahesh Joshi to judicial custody after rejecting more police remand.
- The ACB’s Special Investigation Team says contractors used forged IRCON completion certificates to secure work and that a site‑visit rule enabled collusive bids that pushed premiums up by 30 to 40 percent.
- Investigators allege the manipulation steered nearly Rs 960 crore in tenders and touched projects valued at about Rs 20,000 crore under Rajasthan’s rollout of the rural water scheme.
- Twelve people have been arrested so far, three accused — Mukesh Goyal, Jitendra Sharma and Sanjeev Gupta — remain absconding, and the case builds on earlier ED arrests of Joshi and Badaya that later led to Supreme Court bail.