Thane, Jun 10 (PTI) The Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested a senior official of the Bhiwandi Nizampur City Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh to overlook an unauthorised construction, the ACB said on Wednesday.
The accused, identified as Surendra Bhaskar Bhoir, worked as a surveyor-cum-building inspector and held the additional charge of assistant municipal commissioner, it said.
He had allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from a construction site’s supervisor to spare the building from demolition or penal action over alleged irregularities. After negotiations, the accused official agreed to accept the bribe in instalments, Thane ACB Inspector Sachin More said.
Unwilling to pay the bribe, the supervisor lodged
a complaint with the Thane ACB unit on Tuesday.
The anti-graft team laid a trap at a civic ward office in Padma Nagar on Tuesday evening and caught Bhoir red-handed while accepting Rs 2.5 lakh from the complainant inside a private car parked behind the ward office premises, the official said.
The accused has been booked under relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, he added. PTI COR GK
