Waste mgmt engineer, labourer held for graft……..S Ahmed Ali
An assistant engineer and a labourer attached to the solid waste management department of BMC’s R ward were caught red-handed accepting bribe of Rs 70,000 on Friday at their Kandivli office.
The assistant engineer has been identified as Pradeep Das and the labourer is Maruti Khare. The ACB is verifying the role of an executive engineer, Godse, whose name has also cropped up. The complainant is a builder conducting a redevelopment project. Das had asked the builder to pay him Rs 30,000 and to get Rs 40,000 for Godse. On Friday, Das asked him to hand over the money to Khare when the ACB laid a trap and arrested the two.