A vigilance team has arrested the operator of an NGO named Apeksha Ganga Singh Bisht on Monday on charge of accepting a bribe of Rs 9,500 from a complainant Harish Kandpal in return of his assured initiative to clear dues of around Rs 9.5 lakh against supply of GI pipes.
Informing, Ashok Kumar, additional director general of police and director (vigilance), further said that such drives would continue. He said that the team members had frisked the accused and recovered three envelopes containing around Rs 1,06,500 from his possession. The names of AE, EE and JE were found written on the envelopes thus seized.
It was revealed through investigation that Rs 45,700 was supposed to be paid to EE, Payjal Nigam, Ramnagar, Rs 38,000 to AE and Rs 22,800 to JE by way of bribe.
In his written complaint lodged with the vigilance Haldwani sector, the complainant Harish Kandpal said that he has been supplying GI pipes for water. According to him, he had got a contract to supply pipes for installing Payjal pipes in Bailpokhra, gram sabha.
Harish Kandpal said in his complaint that he had got around 90 per cent amount as mentioned in the bill sent to the department concerned. However, the remaining ten per cent remained elusive.
Fund was to be released by Bisht, operator of Apeksha, an associate agency of Pay Jal Nigam, on behalf of the Government. Bisht had sought one per cent of the released amount that amounts to Rs 9500 for Rs 9.5 lakh as bribe.
The complainant Harish Kandpal said he had made rounds of the office repeatedly and brought the matter up with the officials concerned for the clearance of the due. But each time he had met them they had told him to shell out the amount, he said in the complaint.
Harish Kandpal further noted that following several rounds of talks, the amount and the place where it was to be given had been fixed.
Acting on the complaint, vigilance inspector Dani Ram Arya verified it and found it correct. A team was formed. Two independent witnesses were also included in it. The members drafted a plan to trap them, the trap being monitored by DSP (Vigilance) Chandra lal Titiyal.
Bisht was caught red- handed while taking Rs 9500 as bribe from the complainant at Bail Parav Crossing, Ramnagar on Monday in the presence of two independent witnesses.
A case under appropriate sections of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was registered against the accused in Dehradun sector vigilance. Ashok Kumar, director (vigilance), has announced reward for the team members for cracking the case.