The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of lokayukta here on Tuesday nabbed three employees of Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs25000 for not taking action against victim’s mistake.
The victim Rolly Shrivastava lodged a complaint with the lokayukta police regarding the bribe demanded by three employees in the same section where she was posted.
Section In-charge Phool Singh Rajput, Division Officer Ashok Kaithwar and Assistant grade II clerk Ravishankar Pal. The victim is posted as clerk with the MPBSE and after her mistake was found by the accused and started threatening the victim and demanded Rs3 lakh as bribe and later in the negotiation they agreed for Rs1 lakh.
The three agreed to accept the money but harassed and frustrated over the issue the victim lodged a complaint with the lokayukta on November 10. On the receipt of the complaint during the investigation it was found that the three were involved in demanding bribe.
DSP lokayukta Umesh Tiwari said that the three were caught red handed while accepting bribe of Rs25000 which included five notes of denomination of Rs2000 and 150 notes of denomination of Rs100.
The victim looks after Hoshangabad division and by mistake around 15 ineligible students who applied for appearing of class XII were turned eligible and when the accused came to know the matter they threatened victim of suspending her and enquiry and demanded bribe of Rs3 lakh and later when the deal was done at Rs1 lakh she offered to provided Rs25000 as part payment, he added.
A case under section 7 and 13 (1) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered by the lokayukta and further investigation was started.