The Special Police Establishment (SPE) of the lokayukta nabbed two employees of the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC), while accepting Rs2,000 for providing building permission over a land plot.
According to the lokayukta officials, lalchand Pampani and Ramkumar lokwani were nabbed while accepting Rs 2000 for providing permission for building permission over a residential plot by victim Mukesh Mali. Superintendent of Police lokayukta Birendra Singh said that the two employees demanded bribe after the victim approached for the building permission from the victim who is a resident of Bajaria area.
The complainant lodged a complaint with the lokayukta regarding the demand of bribe of Rs 2000 by Assistant Grade -3 employee lalchand Pampnani and ward in-charge Ramkumar lokwani to provide permission over a land plot. The two are employed at the zone 10 office of ward 36. The victim owns a land plot at Shankaracharya Nagar and wanted to start construction on the land plot and deposited Rs 6000 property tax. He paid tax to obtain permission for the construction but the two employees of the ward demanded bribe to provide the permission for initiating the construction.
After receiving the information the lokayukta officials told the victim to provide the money to the BMC employees and when they were accepting bribe they were caught by the lokayukta officials.
The main accused lalchand accepted the bribe through Ramkumar and when the lokayukta officials entered their room they tried to hide the money but failed in their effort and the officials recovered the money.