VADODARA: Sleuths of the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) nabbed a stamp vendor red handed while accepting a bribe at Bakor village in
Mahisagar district. The accused had sought the bribe to provide a solvency certificate for the bail of a person held by the police in a prohibition case.
According to sources, complainant Jagdish
Taviyad had approached the ACB after a stamp vendor Chandrakant Dave had sought Rs 6,000 as bribe from him. Taviyad’s had gone to the Bakor mamlatdar office to get a solvency certificate of his uncle that was to be furnished for his brother’s bail.
Pandya had sought Rs 6,000 from Taviyad to arrange for the certificate. Taviyad had promised to pay him the money on Wednesday at the Bakor bus stand. When Pandya came to the bus stand and accepted the bribe money, ACB sleuths swooped down upon him and nabbed him red-handed with the bribe money.
Pandya is being questioned by the ACB to find out if other officials were to be paid off from the money accepted by him. TNN
