Clerk held by ACB for accepting bribe………Asdullah hanfi
Pradeep Athavale 62, the complainant owned a shop in Naupada. The businessman used to deal in electronic items. He had however not got the shop included in the list of taxable properties of the Naupada Ward Councl till recently.
A few days ago, Athavale approached the ward council to seek imposing of assessment tax on his shop. Laxman Bengude, the senior clerk from the tax department of the ward council demanded bride to do so.
The clerk offered to impose the tax on the condition that he would take money equivalent to one year of the amount of assessment tax imposed on his shop as bribe to do so.The businessman approached the Thane anti corruption bureau and lodged a complaint of demand of bribe against the clerk.
The officials from the anti corruption bureau laid a trap near the Naupada administrative office and caught the clerk red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 from Athavale. The arrest was affected late on Wednesdays evening.
The anti corruption bureau registered an offence of demand and accepting of bribe against Bengude in the Naupada police station.
The anti corruption bureau registered an offence of demand and accepting of bribe against Bengude in the Naupada police station.
The sleuths subsequently raided the home of the clerk to find out Rs 4.5 lakh in cash from the premises. The accused could not give any satisfactory explanation to the existence of the huge sum in his house.The accused clerk was produced before the designated special anti-corruption court,
Thane on Thursday afternoon. RJ Kadri, the district government pleader remanded the accused for 14 days police custody to facilitate further police probe. The court however remanded the accused clerk to police custody till April 5.
Only a few months ago the anti corruption bureau had arrested Dagdu Khot, a sepoy attached to the Mumbra Ward Council (MWC) for demanding bribe from a resident to consider his application.
Only a few months ago the anti corruption bureau had arrested Dagdu Khot, a sepoy attached to the Mumbra Ward Council (MWC) for demanding bribe from a resident to consider his application.
The sepoy was posted as a clerk in the Diva ward office of the MWC. He was arrested along with a private person while accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 from the complainant. He too was caught after the person had registered a complaint with the anti corruption bureau.
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