JAIPUR: A team of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested an investigator-cum-surveyor of Oriental Insurance in the city on Monday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh. The accused had demanded Rs 4 lakh for clearing a claim of Rs 35 lakh resulting from a bus accident. He was arrested while accepting the first instalment of the bribe.
A few months ago, three passengers died in a fire in the bus after the vehicle hit a live power line near Achrol. The owner of the bus later made an insurance claim for an estimated amount of Rs 35 lakh.
“The accused, identified as Mukesh Pareek, 48, demanded Rs 4 lakh for clearing the claim. He had asked the owner to pay it in instalments. The bus owner approached us and narrated his plight. After verification, our team laid a trap and arrested the accused," said BL Soni, director general, ACB, to TOI.
Dinesh MN, additional director general ADG), ACB, said that the accused had promised the bus owner the full claim amount and demanded a bribe in return as his commission.
Vijay was held for accepting Rs 1 lakh bribe
CBI sources said Vijay was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in lieu of giving some rebate to a petrol pump owner from Jhalawar.
“During the raids conducted at his premises, we recovered nearly 1.5kg gold, documents of immovable assets, details of four bank lockers and Rs 2.5 lakh in cash from him,” said a CBI officer.
“Jail authorities had conducted the Covid test and admitted him to RUHS on January 22. He was kept at a ward on the sixth floor where undertrials and convicted persons are kept,” said a senior doctor of RUHS.