The Indore lokayukta police on Friday raided the premises of Mhow SDM Vijay Agrawal’s office and caught the patwari, Kamal, and his private assistant, Rajkumar Patel, red-handed accepting the bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a farmer of village Choradia. The farmer of Choradia Bhagwan Patel of village Choradia reported the matter to the lokayukta SP Indore Arun Mishra that the patwari of Mhow SDM office Kamal was asking Rs 2 lakh bribe for the measurement of his 5 hectare of land situated in village Choradia.
The lokayukta officials gave him the recording instrument in which he recorded the voice of patwari asking him the bribe and handed over the recording to lokayukta police. lokayukta DSP BS Parihar told The Pioneer that a complaint in this regard was received on April 8, the recording of patwari is done on the next day and on Friday, the patwari was caught red-handed accepting the bribe of Rs 1 lakh.
later, patwari Kamal was released on personal bond. The Patwari was receiving the bribe through his assistant Rajkumar Patel whom he has kept for his assistance. The lokayukta team was led by DSP BS Parihar, DSP JD Sharma, TI Dinesh Patel, TI Satish Patel and constable Pramod Yadav, Anil Yadav, Shiv Parashar and Mohd Rahim.