AK Shukla, a senior accountant in the Accountant General’s office located near ISBT, Dehradun who had been arrested by a CBI team from Dehradun branch on Wednesday evening was sent to Suddhowala jail on Thursday.
He was caught red-handed while taking a bribe of Rs5, 000 from complainant Bhagwan Mishra, a Government school teacher from Khatima in Udham Singh Nagar.
A CBI inspector said that he was produced in Special CBI court at around 3 pm on Thursday from where he was sent to jail on 14 days’ judicial remand. The accused was booked sections 7 and 13 (1)(d) 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, CBI inspector added.
Shukla had sought bribe of Rs5,000 from the complainant in lieu of Rs2.71 lakh getting entered into his GPF account, said Dehradun branch CBI DSP Akhil Kaushik.
Mishra registered a complaint on the same at CBI office on Wednesday. According to Mishra, due to some reasons, he could have got Rs 2.71 lakh deposited in his GPF account.
Shukla had sought Rs11,000 as bribe to complete the work. However, Mishra had fixed the deal with Shukla for Rs5,000. Acting on the complaint, a team comprising inspector Devrani, Shailendra Singh, RP Sharma and others arrested Shukla while he was accepting bribe of Rs5,000 from Mishra.
Shukla's house was also raided by CBI team. Team members collected relevant documents from the possession of the accused.