The Mussoorie Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) assistant engineer TP Nautiyal who had been absconding since being named in a bribery case recently was arrested by a vigilance team from Nayagaon in Jhajhra area of Dehradun on Tuesday. The court has sent Nautiyal to two days police remand.
Earlier on Monday, the Uttarakhand High Court had rejected the stay on arrest petition of Nautiyal.
Sources said that Nautiyal was not cooperating with the vigilance team interrogating him and had not given out any substantial information related to the case. Vigilance director and ADGP Ashok Kumar informed that vigilance and intelligence personnel were activated in Sahaspur on Tuesday. They were acting on a tip off about Nautiyal going to Vikasnagar in a car from Dehradun on Monday night and returning in the same vehicle to Dehradunon Tuesday morning. Following the alert and subsequent police activity, the accused was later arrested from Nayagaon on
Tuesday. The team had earlier raided Nautiyal’s paternal home at Purola in Uttarkashi district and other places without success.