The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of lokayukta in an early morning swoop here on Friday arrested an engineer of the Public Works Department while taking a bribe of Rs 30,000.
The accused, identified as Brajendra Kumar Mathur, according to lokayukta Superintendent of Police (SP) Arun Mishra, had demanded a bribe of Rs 50,000 from the complainant, Brajesh Soni, to get his outstanding payment released for the approval of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for construction of a road.
Soni who had a lodged a complaint to this effect, as per the plan chalked out by the lokayukta police, on Friday morning went to PWD guest house to give a sum of Rs 30,000 as the first installment of the bribe money to the accused. As soon as he handed over the amount to the engineer, the jawans of lokayukta police who were in plain clothes, arrested the engineer and recovered the said amount from his possession.
According to complainant Brajesh Soni, he was supposed to receive a payment of Rs 3.20 lakh in lieu of preparing a DPR for the construction of a road between Manglya to Sankheri village. However, the PWD engineer had demanded a bribe of Rs 50,000 to get Soni’s money released by the department.
Of Rs 3.20 lakh, Soni had already secured payment of Rs 1.50 lakh. However, engineer Mathur had been maintaining a dilly-dallying tactics to release remaining amount to him for the past few day, the lokayukta DSP Daulat Singh informed.