Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 10: State Vigilance Organization (SVO) caught red handed Patwari Halqa Zewan Mohammad Altaf Khan while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 5000.
A spokesman of the SVO said that one Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, son of Ghulam Hassan Bhat of Zewan Bala lodged a written complaint with Police Station Vigilance Organisation mentioning that in order to sell his ancestral land at Zafran Colony Zewan he and his father approached Patwari a number of times for issuance of revenue extracts of the land. But the Patwari avoided every time and finally demanded illegal gratification for issuance of revenue extracts.
On the basis of complaint, Vigilance sleuths laid a trap and caught accused Patwari red handed while demanding and accepting phenolphthalein dusted amount of Rs 5000 from the complainant in the presence of independent witness.
The tainted bribe money was recovered from the possession of the accused and he was taken into custody for further investigations.
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