Two held for taking Rs 77,000 bribe for school admission in Thane

Thane, Jun 30 (PTI) The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Maharashtra’s Thane has arrested two persons for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 77,000 from a woman to secure admission for her daughter at a government-aided school, an official said.

The ACB on Monday laid a trap and caught the accused accepting a bribe outside the school in the Rabodi area, he said.

“The accused, Fatima Ansari and Chaitanya Pradhan, demanded Rs 1.2 lakh to secure admission for the complainant’s daughter in Class 6 at the school. Excluding the official school fee of Rs 22,700, they accepted the remaining bribe amount of Rs 77,300, and were caught red-handed by the ACB,” Inspector Santosh Navalgi said.

A probe confirmed that the accused were demanding money under the pretext

of influencing the school’s principal, he said, adding that a case will be registered against the duo under the Prevention of Corruption Act. PTI COR ARU