ACB Gujarat nabs clerk from Deputy Director of Information’s office in Nadiad

Kheda: Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has nabbed the junior clerk of registry branch and incharge senior clerk of accounts branch of the Deputy Director of Information office in Nadiad in a bribe case of Rs 1500.

The complainant and his wife have received an order of arranging Lok Dayro in villages for public awareness programs to convey various schemes of government and their benefits to the common public. The deputy director of the information office in Nadiad had given the order. Their payment was mentioned Rs 4000 per program in the order. The accused Kirankumar Hasmukhbhai Sharma demanded a bribe of Rs 3000 for the bill of Rs 8000 for 2 programs. The amount was reduced to Rs 2500 after an argument. He had already accepted Rs 1000 from the complainant and asked to pay the remaining amount of Rs 1500 to him at his office.

The complainant contacted ACB as he was not willing to pay the bribe. The accused was found taking a bribe of Rs 1500 from the complainant during a trap executed by ACB. The accused is detained.

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