KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, March 2: A 30-year-old state government official who was posted in Chakradharpur sub-divisional has been arrested by a team of the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) for receiving a bribe on Thursday.
The arrested official Shekhar Pandit, who was a nazir, was nabbed while he was accepting Rs 4000 as a bribe from a local resident at the Chakradharpur sub-divisional office in West Singhbhum.
Having arrested the official, the ACB team brought the accused to the bureau’s divisional headquarters at Sonari in Jamshedpur.
According to sources in the ACB, the complainant wanted to get a bill of Rs 24,000 cleared from the Treasury. For doing the favour Nazir had demanded Rs 12,000 as a bribe but a deal between the two was finally struck for a bribe of Rs 4,000.
The sources revealed that the complainant was reluctant to pay even Rs 4,000 as a bribe. Hence he contacted the ACB’s divisional headquarters at Sonari where he lodged a complaint against the Nazir.
The ACB sleuths had got the complaint verified and having found it prima facie true, they provided phenolphthalein powder to the complainant for smearing in the currency notes meant for the bribe. In the morning, the ACB team had travelled to Chakradharpur covering a distance of 75 km to nab the Nazir red-handed.
The team nabbed the official as soon as the currency notes exchanged hands at the Chakradharpur sub-divisional office.
