Mumbai CBI Court Discharges 5 Former Jet Airways Pilots In EPFO Bribery Case, Finds No Evidence Of Undue Favour
Mumbai: The special CBI court has discharged five former pilots booked for allegedly giving a bribe to a Senior Social Security Assistant of the Employees' Provident Fund Office, Kandivali, between 2019 and 2021 to get their accounts settled. The court said there is nothing to prove that they were given any undue preference. Bribery allegations against PF official As per the prosecution case,…
The five former Jet Airways pilots were acquitted by the special CBI court in Mumbai after being accused of bribing a Kandivali Senior Social Security Assistant of the Employees' Provident Fund Office between 2019 and 2021. The prosecution alleged that the pilots provided illegal gratification to the PF official in exchange for the settlement of their accounts.
However, the court found no evidence to support the claims of bribery. The pilots' defence stated that the financial transactions were actually consultancy fees to the pilots' wives and purchases of herbal products by Bamne's sister-in-law. Despite the alleged financial transactions being made to the consultancy firm run by Bamne, the court ruled that the pilots were not given any undue favour or bypassed any fair procedures in the settlement of their Provident Fund claims.
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