Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Tuesday arrested four Government servants red-handed accepting bribes. Two of the arrested persons were Block Development Officers of Nawadih (Bokaro) and Baghmara (Dhanbad) blocks.
Nawadih BDO Arun Oraon was caught while accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000 in office here. According to reports, one Santosh Kumar, an office staff of Nawadih block had filed a complaint with the ACB that the BDO had demanded Rs 35,000 as bribe for sending absentee register for the release of his salary dues of last two months.
Sources said that after verification, the complaint, which was found to be correct, a flying squad raided the BDO’s official residence and caught him and his driver red -handed while accepting the bribe of Rs 35,000.
Meanwhile, Bhagmara BDO Girja Nand Kisku in Dhanbad was arrested by ACB sleuths while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 in his office.
Meanwhile, the divisional Anti Corruption Bureau team in Hazaribagh arrested two Government employees taking bribe from the informers.
In the morning, an ACB team nabbed Gokul Mehta, a revenue clerk of Barhi block taking Rs 4000 from informer Mukesh Kumar. Kumar has constructed the Panchayat bhawan of Karson, and the revenue clerk was not receiving the possession of the building. He had demanded Rs 8000 from the contractor and as per ACB’s instruction Mukesh Kumar handed over Rs 4000 as first installment of the bribe to him today.
The ACB team arrested Dhirendra Kumar, call operator of Hazaribagh Sadar hospital, who was incharge of Mamta-vahan. The complainant Vinod Kumar gave him Rs 4200 as per the direction of ACB team at about 5.30 pm in the evening and the alert team members immediately took him into custody.