Intizar Ahmed sent to jail

Intizar Ahmed, Urdu translator and clerk in-charge in Food and Drug department who had been arrested on Wednesday by a Vigilance team while taking a bribe of Rs20, 000 from one Sidharth Saini, a native of Roorkee, at CMO office, Roshnabad, Haridwar, was sent to Jail on Thursday. The role of Food Inspector Dilip Kumar Jain, who had allegedly appointed Intizar Ahmed to accept the bribe in his absence from the complainant will be probed, said Director (Vigilance) Ashok Kumar on Thursday. 

The vigilance team will collect all the relevant evidences related to case to crack it, he added. It should be mentioned here that Saini had submitted an application seeking license for preparing food products in the office of food and civil supply, Haridwar. Sources said that vigilance department had earlier received some complaints against food inspector Jain for allegedly demanding bribes for clearing NOCs from the department concerned.