The Tata Group subsidiary Tata Consulting Engineers
and others have been charged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with
alleged corruption and deception totaling around Rs 800 crore in relation to
the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai.
Boskalis Smit, a multinational maritime engineering firm, has also been charged
in the case. According to the CBI, Tata Consulting Engineers favored
private firms for dredging work at the port and engaged in a criminal
conspiracy with Mumbai port officials.
The dredging project’s management consultant was
Tata Consulting Engineers. Phase I and Phase II of the Capital Dredging Project
were the two stages in which the dredging work was carried out. Phases one and
two were planned and carried out between 2010 and 2014 and 2012 and 2019,
respectively. The lawsuit against the
Tata Group was filed a week after one of Air India’s Dreamliners, which the
Group had purchased from the government, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing
241 of the 242 people on board.