Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 6: Anti-Corruption Bureau today produced charge-sheet against Rajinder Kumar, Executive Engineer and Mohd Farooq, Asstt Accounts Officer, SAMAGRA (Education Division, SSA/RMSA, Div III-IV), who were caught red handed while accepting bribe.
The accused had demanded bribe for release of long pending bills of the complainant, who had carried out partial construction work.
The complainant had received payment of Rs 29.97 lakh in February, 2020. After completion of some more work, bills worth Rs 15 lakhs were raised by the complainant. However, the accused officials withheld payment on the ground that their share in respect of the earlier payment had not been paid in terms of 2 percent and 1.5 percent respectively as such Rs. 45000 was demanded for the release of the new bill.
On receipt of complaint, ACB laid a trap in which the accused officials were caught red handed while demanding and accepting bribe.
The charge-sheet was produced in the Court of Anti Corruption Jammu. The next date of hearing has been fixed on 03-01-2022.
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