A complaint filed by airport taxi operators has snowballed into a full-blown CBI case, ensnaring two top-ranking officials of Chandigarh International Airport Limited (CHIAL) — the operating entity behind Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport, Mohali — for alleged extortion, criminal conspiracy, and demand of undue advantage as public servants.
The CBI’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), Chandigarh, has registered an FIR against Rakesh Ranjan Sahay, Joint General Manager (ATM) and then Chief Executive Officer of CHIAL, and Amrit Garg, Assistant General Manager (Commercial) and then Head of Department (Commercial) at CHIAL.
The FIR, registered under Section 120-B IPC (criminal conspiracy) read with Section 386 IPC (extortion) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018), accuses the two officers of causing “mental, physical and financial harassment” to members of the Airport Taxi Union through extortion and blackmailing, and of showing undue favouritism towards a particular licensee — M/s Nanuan’s.
The alleged offences date back to 2021 and continued thereafter. The case has been entrusted to Prakash Chand, DSP, CBI, ACB, Chandigarh, for investigation.
The formal CBI complaint was lodged by Maya Lavania, Executive Director (Administration), Airports Authority of India (AAI), Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan, Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi — acting on behalf of the apex aviation body after an exhaustive internal process.
08/05/2026 Nitin Jain/Tribune
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