Vadodara: A forest beat guard in Godhra was arrested by the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) and a range forester has been declared as absconding for accepting a bribe of Rs 23,500 to let off a truck filled with illegally mined stones from the forest area.
ACB officials said forester Gunvantsinh Parmar had stopped a truck which was on its way to a factory to sell the stones mined illegally from the forest area on December 3.
Parmar demanded a bribe of Rs 60,000 to let off the truck. After negotiations, he accepted Rs 5,000 from the driver on the spot and asked him to pay Rs 30,000 later.
After paying Rs 5,000, the driver approached ACB as he was not willing to pay the remaining amount. ACB sleuths planned a trap and asked the complainant to contact Parmar and ask him to meet him in Godhra town on Saturday to pay the remaining amount. Before they were to meet, Parmar told the complainant that a beat guard named Govind Chaudhary would meet him and that the money should be paid to him.
Chaudhary met the complainant near BSNL office where he accepted the money and was nabbed by ACB officials.