The vigilance officials here on Friday caught a clerk in the Panki block office for taking illegal gratification. Giving this information the IPS probationer cum officer-in-charge of the Panki police station Prashant Raj Anand said the clerk has been identified as Madan Mohan Prasad. The vigilance team which reached from Ranchi caught Madan Mohan Prasad taking Rs10,000 in cash.
Prashant said one Shailender K Singh had complained to the vigilance department against Madan Mohan Prasad. Prasad was demanding Rs50,000 which was scaled down to Rs10,000. The illegal gratification was being demanded for a road construction whose estimated cost was Rs5,95,252. Shailender K Singh is the chief of one Sahyog Samiti for rural road construction in Panki.