The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of lokayukta trapped an assistant manager of electricity company on Tuesday and caught him red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs40,000.
A complaint was filed with the SPE by a contractor Mukesh Rawat against Junior Engineer, working as assistant manager in Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Amit Kumar, posted at Rannod.
The lokayukta caught him red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs40,000.
Rawat in his complaint with the lokayukta told that the Junior Engineer (JE) Amit Kumar demands Rs9000 per file for clearing the bills and now he has started demanding money for farmers’ electricity connections and contractors of transformers.
Amit Kumar demanded the money from Rawat also, perturbed over that he lodged complaint with the SPE. The SP of SPE ordered enquiry of the complaint and after getting its report laid down a trap to catch the JE red handed. A trap was laid and after negotiations the JE agreed to clear Rawat’s files against the bribe of Rs3.60 lakh and the demanded Rs40,000 as the first installment of the deal.
SPE provided Rs40,000 notes marked with powder to Rawat who as per the program reached the office of Amit Kumar and as soon as the JE accepted the money the SPE team reached the spot and caught him red handed. The SPE also detained the testing assistant Moolchand Pathak posted with Amit Kumar in the office and made him co-accused.
The modus operandi of Amit Kumar and Pathak was such that first Pathak used to prepare false testing report of farmers meters in the village and used to prepare theft cases against them after that Kumar used to impose hefty fines of theft and than for settling the issue Amit used to demand money.