Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 24: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today laid a trap and arrested a Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) technician for demanding and accepting bribe for processing a power agreement case.
In a statement, the ACB said it received a complaint alleging that Vinod Kumar Fotedar, Technician-2nd posted in the office of the Assistant Executive Engineer, KPDCL of Power Development Department (PDD), Anantnag is demanding a bribe of Rs 25,000 for processing a power agreement case of the complainant.
In its complaint, the complainant (an owner of a poultry farm) alleged that he had applied for power agreement and the concerned had visited the spot also and demanded the bribe. Accordingly, a case of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered in Police Station ACB Anantnag and investigation took-up during which a trap team was constituted.
The team caught red handed Fotedar while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs 25,000 from the complainant, the ACB statement said and added that he was arrested on the spot by the ACB team. The bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses.
Further investigation was going on, the statement added.
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