A team of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Wednesday caught a 32-year-old Food Inspector red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs 50,000 in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, said ACB officials.
The accused officer has been identified as Food Inspector Trilok Singh Thakur (32), presently posted with Civil Supply Corporation in Raigarh district, added ACB officials.
According to ACB officials, the accused Food Inspector was demanding bribe of Rs 50000 from a Transporter on the pretext of saving him from a pseudo case being fabricated by him.
Disappointed by the bribe demand of accused Food Inspector, the Transporter Gokul Prasad Patel, engaged in transportation of food stuffs to societies and self-help groups being operated by the Corporation, lodged a complaint against the Food Inspector.
Based on complaint of the Transporter, the ACB sleuths carried out verification and found that by forming false report of less stock dispatched by Patel, accused Food Inspector was demanding bribe from him, said ACB officials, adding that a trap to catch the officer red-handed was laid.
Following the directives of ACB sleuths, the Transporter reached the residence of accused situated at Kelo Vihar in Raigarh along with the bribe money as decided between them, said officials, elaborating that the Food Inspector was caught red-handed with bribe amounting to Rs 50,000.
The accused Officer has been arrested and ACB registered a case in this connection under relevant sections of Prevention of Corruption Act-1988 and investigating the matter further, averred ACB officials.