A lokayukta team caught a Food Inspector red-handed while accepting bribe from a sweetmeat shop here on Monday.
According to the information available, one Gopal Rathore owns a ‘Suman Bakery’ that has three outlets in the city. About a month back Food Inspector Hanuman Mittal reached one of the bakery outlets and took samples of some products and after taking the samples he demanded Rs 5,000 to get the samples passed failing that he would threaten to fail the samples. Besides he also demanded that he be paid Rs 5,000 per month for running the bakery.
Rathore paid Rs 2,500 out of fear immediately to the inspector and told him that the remaining installment of Rs 2500 would be paid to him in next month. Three days back the Inspector called Rathore and asked him to pay the balance installment after that the bakery owner lodged a complaint with the lokayukta, Gwalior.
Rathore was provided a tape recorder by the lokayukta team to record the conversation while paying him money but acting smart Inspector called him to Vaishnavi Mishthan Bhandar at Gopal ki Pohri Bus Stand.
Rathore informed this to the lokayukta team that told him to move ahead after that he reached at the place where he was called by the Inspector and while he was giving money to the Inspector the lokayukta police nabbed him red handed.
The lokayukta team included Inspector Atul Singh, Inspector Kavindra Singh, constable Balvir Singh, constable Dhiraj Singh besides team of the Chir Sagar Kotwali.