ACB arrests two Revenue officers while accepting bribes in Srinagar
10-Apr-2025 10:22 PM 8369
Srinagar, Apr 10 (Reporter) Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau on Thursday trapped and arrested a Girdawar, and Lumberdar red-handed in Srinagar while demanding and allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000. ACB said they received a written complaint alleging therein that Ayaz Ahmad Hurra, Girdawar, Chatabal, Srinagar, who is holding additional charge of Patwari Halqa Habakadal and Halqa Shivpora was demanding Rs 50,000 as bribe instead of issuance of revenue extracts required for the sale deed of an old house located at Mandir Bagh, Srinagar. As per the complaint, the complainant was forced to pay Rs 30,000 a few days ago, and the remaining Rs 20,000 was asked to be paid today to receive the requisite documents. The bribe demand was communicated through Lamberdar (tout) Rafiq Ahmad, who was acting in connivance with the Girdawar, the complaint said The complainant approached ACB Srinagar and submitted a written complaint, requesting legal action against the accused public servants. Upon receipt of the complaint, a pre-trap verification was conducted, which established the demand of bribe and accordingly a case under section 7 PC Act 1988 and 61(2) BNS was registered at Police Station ACB Srinagar and investigation was taken up. “During investigation, a trap team was constituted which laid a successful trap and caught the accused public servant red-handed while demanding and accepting Rs 20,000 as bribe from the complainant through Lumberdar,” a spokesman of the ACB said. “After completing all legal formalities, both the accused public servants were taken into custody,” the ACB said, adding that further investigation of the instant case is going on...////...
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