The divisional anti-corruption bureau team arrested Dilip Kumar Mukherjee, General Manager of Bank of India, Koderma and Navlesh Kumar, suspended head clerk of land acquisition department, of Koderma district from Koderma. The head of the anti-corruption bureau team DSP Pran Ranjan gave this information at divisional headquarter, Hazaribagh, on Friday evening.
DSP Pran Ranjan said that this is the first time that ACB has taken cognizance of an oral complaint. On December 8 Puraniya Devi, Urmila Devi and Sushma Devi of Koderma made an oral complaint at Divisional Headquarter of ACB that the head clerk of land acquisition department of Koderma Navlesh Kumar taking 5 per cent to 50 per cent commission for the payment of their compensation amount with the connivance of officials of Bank of India.
“We registered a case on this oral complaint and then started investigation. When it was established that the complaint is true then on January 5 we raided at the house of Navlesh Kumar from where we seized `4.68 lakh in cash and many blank withdrawals having sign or thumb impression of those whose land had been acquired by railway for construction of yard on Koderma-Hazaribagh rail line,” he added.
At that time Navlesh Kumar succeeded to escape but the department suspended him on the basis of ours report. On the cash seized from his house we found wrappers and labels of Bank of India, Koderma.