Special Police Establishment (SPE) of lokayukta caught an Assistant Pension Officer accepting bribe of `5000 for facilitating pension from a retired employee of revenue department on Monday in Hoshangabad.
The accused officer Girish Malviya is posted with the district pension office at Hoshangabad and was caught red-handed while accepting bribe of `5000 from Jitendra Jain.
Jain retired from the post of Ameen in Tawa Reservoir Project and when he went for enquiring his pension at the district pension office at Hoshangabad he was asked to shell out `5000 for facilitating his pension. The victim agreed to pay and lodged a complaint with the lokayukta regarding the demand of the bribe.
After receiving the complaint a team was formed which trapped the accused near his office. The accused was informed by the victim that he would pay the money on Monday after which the victim was told to provide the money to a betel shopkeeper in the district collector office premises and while the accused collected the money he was nabbed by the police. A case under section 7 and 13 (1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered by the lokayukta.
Meanwhile, in another case of accepting bribe a Patwari posted at Vidisha was nabbed while accepting a bribe of `10000 for demarcation of land on Monday. Complainant Imroz Khan lodged a complaint that the Khemraj Meena who is Patwari and posted in Vidisha had demanded `10000 for demarcation. Based on the complaint Meena was nabbed while accepting bribe at his office.