Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 28: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) trapped and arrested a Clerk in Tehsil office Singhpora, Baramulla for accepting bribe.
The accused employee, namely Hilal Ahmad, was demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 2000 for settling a grievance of the complainant, who had lodged a complaint regarding alleged grabbing of his ancestral land measuring one kanal at Daslipora Pattan, by his father’s sister.
For settlement of the issue, the complainant on many occasions approached Revenue authorities of Tehsil Singhpora. He had also applied before the Tehsildar Singhpora, Pattan, District Baramulla for settlement of the grievance. The application filed by the complainant with Tehsildar Singhpora was duly marked by Tehsildar Singhpora to the Naib Tehsildar concerned for verification and for taking appropriate necessary action.
When the complainant approached the office of Naib Tehsildar Singhpora for redressing grievance and for conducting verification and taking appropriate action as directed by Tehsildar, they refused to take any action and keep delaying the same as the former refused to give them any bribe which was demanded by Clerk Hilal Ahmad, posted in Naib Tehsil office Singhpora.
As the complainant approached ACB, a case FIR number 04/2022 was registered at Police Station ACB Baramulla and a trap team was constituted. The trap team caught Hilal Ahmad red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs 2,000 from the complainant. He was arrested and taken into custody by ACB team. The bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses. Further investigation of the case is going on.
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