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.
