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CBI had registered the case on the recommendation of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which had found prima facie procedural irregularities in the procurement of the software, according to sources in the investigation agency...
The chargesheet, filed after nearly six years of probe, also names six others under IPC section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, they said.. CVC, in its note to CBI, had said that an initial probe by Air Indias chief vigilance officer showed that the national carrier had selected the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system from SAP AG without following proper tendering procedure..
The commission said that Air India selected the software from the largest ERP provider of the world without justifying the need for the same since a similar system from Oracle was already in operation..
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