A vigilance team arrested lalit Kumar, officer at the sub-station on Turner Road , on Tuesday while he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs2,500 from Harkishan Singh, Kailashpur, Mehuwala Mafi, Dehradun.
lalit Kumar had demanded Rs2,500 as bribe for providing Harkishan Singh with a temporary power connection. According to Singh, Kumar had asked him to cough up the amount to get temporary power connection. The accused will be sent to Suddhowala jail after being produced in the court, said SP (Vigilance) VKS Karki.
Police said Singh had approached power department at EC Road to get the power connection. The official concerned asked him to visit power department at Mohanpur, Premnagar. As per the power official’s instruction, Singh had deposited Rs1,000 on March 31, and received a receipt. The power officials at Mohanpur asked him to visit the power office at Turner Road again. He was again asked to deposit Rs1,000 there. He deposited Rs1,000 and received a receipt on April 18. He met SSO lalit Kumar and sought temporary power connection. Kumar asked him to pay Rs12,500 to procure temporary power connection as per the Government guidelines. In addition, Singh was asked to shell out Rs2,500 as bribe to him. Singh agreed to pay Rs2,500 to him and the day was fixed on April 21. Meanwhile, Singh had registered a complaint with the vigilance on the matter.
SP Karki formed a team comprising Bhaskar lal Sah, Mithilesh Kumar Barthwal, Manoj Rawat, Sunil Rawat and Sushila Yadav and found the complaint correct. Following the direction of the vigilance department officer, Singh visited the office and gave the sum to Kumar. A case under appropriate sections of IPC was registered against the accused.