Oil India shock at CBI arrest
Oil India sources are reeling from shock after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested one of its deputy general managers, an IIM alumnus, for corruption.
On May 3 (2025), the CBI arrested Prayas Chakravorty, a DGM in Oil India's materials management department in Duliajan, and Jyoti Kumar Singh, a DGM (sales and marketing) from United Drilling Tools dealing in casing pipes. According to a CBI press release, Chakravorty faces charges of accepting a bribe of Rs7 lakhs ($8300) and purchasing gold worth Rs3.73 lakhs ($4400).
Few at Duliajan claim to know Chakravorty as he has spent most of his career in Delhi. On May 3 (2025), the CBI lodged a First Information Report (FIR) for corruption against Chakravorty, Kunal Gupta, managing director of United Drilling Tools, Jyoti Kumar Singh, as well as against United Drilling Tools as a company.
The FIR accuses Chakravorty, Singh "and unknown public servants" of "indulging in corrupt and illegal activities of obtaining bribe money against facilitating the issuance of award of work and clearance of bills of the said private contractors/suppliers, thereby causing huge wrongful gains to themselves and corresponding wrongful loss to the union exchequer." The CBI press release, issued on May 5 (2025), says it laid a trap immediately and caught the "accused public servant red-handed with Rs3.34 lakhs cash ($3950) and documents related to the purchase of gold."
Chakravorty and Singh later appeared before a court in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. Chakravorty, who earned a one-year postgraduate diploma in management from IIM Ahmedabad, was previously seconded to the DGH's procurement section.
"He has been in Duliajan for only about a year," says a source.