Six BSNL officers are to be dismissed under FR 56(J) - reports media.

Media has reported that, 6 senior officers of BSNL are to be dismissed under FR 56 (J). The officers to be sacked include those from the Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Haryana circles, namely Gopi Chand Tolwani, Rajesh Bansal, Pradip Kumar Saha, Asheesh Pathak, Chandragupta Bidika and Suresh Kumar. The officers forced to leave, have allegedly dubious reputations, with charges of corruption and non-performance surfaced against them in the past. In 2014, Tolwani, the then deputy director general of BSNL was caught red-handed by Lokayukta police in Bhopal for accepting a bribe. In another case, in 2015, Bansal was arrested from his house in Patiala by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while he was working as a general manager at BSNL. Similarly, in 2017, Gupta, working as an additional general manager of Microwave Project at Bhubaneswar was caught while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs1 lakh from a contractor.