Ayodhya Nayak, Survey Inspector of western forest division of Hazaribagh district, was nabbed red-handed while taking bribe on Tuesday evening by the State vigilance department team.

Soon after Nayak took Rs 4,000 from the complainer, Jubair Khan of Barkagaon, the members of vigilance team immediately arrested him. After completing some paper works the team leave for Ranchi with Nayak.

The complainer, Jubair Khan, who is a resident of Baliya village of Barkagaon block said that he is a timber merchant and few days ago he had applied seeking permission of cutting two mature trees which he had bought.

His application was approved by the higher officials but the survey inspector was not giving him no-objection certificate since last one week. Survey inspector Nayak was demanding Rs 6,000 as bribe to issue no-objection certificate to the timber merchant and was not even ready to take the amount in installment.

Finally, Jubair decided to inform the matter to the State vigilance department where a case was lodged and after preliminary investigation he was told to go ahead dealing with Nayak.

After getting green signal from vigilance officials Jubair once again contacted Nayak and finally settled the matter on Rs 4000. Nayak gave him 4 p.m. time of Tuesday evening to give him the permission cum no-objection letter.

The vigilance team also reached in forest office premises and gave chemical coated notes of Rs 1,000 each to Jubair which he gave to Nayak. As Nayak received the notes the members of vigilance team caught him red-handedly in presence of his co-staff and officials.

DSP Ramsharan Yadav and Magistrate Rajeev Ranjan were leading the team. Other members of the vigilance team were Inspector Kalimuddin Khan, Prabhu Gope and Hardev Narayan Mandal. This was the second arrest within three days by the state vigilance team in Hazaribagh district.