JAIPUR: The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested more than half a dozen government officials in separate cases of corruption.
Cops arrested one employee of Jaipur Heritage Nagar Nigam for accepting bribe from a contractor. While one person was arrested for demanding bribe for land registration in Jhunjhunu, five persons of transport department were arrested in Dungarpur for extortion. Nagar Palika’s one official was arrested in Jhalawar with cash for which he had no explanation.
“Sher Singh who is an executive engineer of Jaipur Heritage Nagar Nigam was arrested while taking bribe of Rs 1 lakh from contractor Govind Aggarwal and we have arrested him as well,” said an official.
Anil Kumar Choudhary, who is Chirawa Nagar Palika’s chief executive officer was arrested while taking a bribe of Rs 3 lakh and an ACB official said, “We received a complaint that the accused had asked for Rs 12 lakh for registration of two plots following which we laid a trap and arrested the accused at his residence when he was taking the money.”
In Dungarpur’s Rantangarh border, give officials of the transport department’s check post were arrested for extorting money and the officials said that they had received multiple complaints regarding this. Cops recovered Rs 2.6 lakh from the accused which they had taken from the complainants. Sources said that few others who were also involved in this are on the run and will be arrested soon.
In Jhalawar’s Jhalarapatan Nagar Palika official Sumer Singh was arrested as cops had received anonymous complaint about him being involved in corruption. Police had him on their radar and caught him when he was travelling to his village. He was checked while he was on the bus and on being searched cops found Rs 1.3 lakh and recovered three ATM cards from him out of which in one account, the accused had Rs 29 lakh.
In all the cases, cops are looking into the bank accounts held by the accused to find proof of disproportionate income and they have been booked under relevant sections of law.