The Special Establishment of Police (SPE) of lokayukta on Monday arrested an Assistant Engineer of Public Health Engineering (PHE) department caught red-handed, while accepting bribe of Rs 20,000 for continuing work of a dam in Mandsaur.
lokayukta Inspector Basant Shrivastava after receiving complaint from contractor Jagdish Chandra Choudhary regarding demand of bribe to continue work of an under construction dam nabbed Assistant Engineer Ramgopal Kumawat accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000.
Construction of a dam was undergoing near Mandsaur and work worth Rs 40 lakh was completed but for continuing further works Kumawat demanded a bribe of Rs 40,000. The victim decided to lodge a complaint of the engineer with the lokayukta and on May 3 he lodged a complaint with the lokayukta.
The lokayukta officials laid the trap and asked the victim to provide Rs 20,000 to the accused and while the accused was accepting bribe he was caught red handed. Meanwhile a lower Division Clerk (lDC) of Mahakaushal Nursing Council was nabbed while accepting a bribe of Rs 2,000 on Monday.
Superintendent of Police (lokayukta) Siddharth Choudhary told that the an lDC Amar Prasad Yadav of Mahakaushal Nursing Council which is associated with providing nursing registration was demanding Rs 2,000 for providing the registration certificate from Dharmendra Singh of Rajakheda Dholpur.
The victim lodged a complaint with the lokayukta and after receiving the complaint the victim was sent with Rs 2,000 and while the accused was accepting the bribe he was caught red handed by the lokayukta officials.