The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of the lokayukta nabbed an engineer posted with MP Mandi Board at the MP Nagar office on Friday while accepting Rs 25,000 for clearance of bills of work done for the department.
According to the lokayukta officials, Vipin Banjhal was nabbed while accepting the gratification Kailash Parmar.
Inspector VK Singh of lokayukta said that Vipin demanded bribe when Kailash approached him for clearing the bills. The complainant was told to provide the money to the accused and when he was accepting it he was caught by the lokayukta officials. The accused was trapped at around 5 pm on Friday.
Initially the victim was asked to pay Rs 90,000 but later the deal was done at Rs 40,000. The victim had paid Rs 15,000 earlier and was scheduled to pay Rs 25,000 but he decided to lodge a complaint with the lokayukta.
The accused is posted as engineer with repair and renovation wing of the engineering department of MP Mandi Board.
The complainant was involved in contractual work of renovation.
A case was registered against Vipin under section 7 and 13(1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Further investigation into the matter has been started.