Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Apr 1: The ACB today arrested Shakeel Ahmad Dar, Assistant Engineer, Rural Development Department, Block Pahalgam, Anantnag for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 5000 for processing the bills of Rs 98,776
The Bureau received a complainant alleging that Shakeel Ahmad Dar, Assistant Engineer, Rural Development Department, Block Pahalgam, Anantnag is demanding bribe of Rs 5,000 from complainant for processing the pending bill.
The complainant alleged that he is contractor by profession and has done the work under MGNAREGA scheme titled as ” R/Wall Nazir Merisi to Qasim bokad via Gh Rasool bokad at Gowass”.
On receipt of the complaint, a case was registered in PS ACB Anantnag and investigation taken up.
During investigation, a trap team was constituted. The team laid a successful trap and caught red handed Shakeel Ahmad Dar, while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 5,000 from complainant.
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 investigations are going on.
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