Srinagar: The Anti Corruption Bureau on Thursday arrested an executive engineer of Jal Shakti Department, (PHE) Ground Water Division Kashmir while demanding and accepting bribe.
ACB spokesperson said that that they received a written complaint alleging therein that Executive Engineer of Jal Shakti Department, Ground Water Division, Kashmir is demanding ₹1,36,000 as bribe for issuance of allotment orders in favour of the complainants and the complainant has already paid a bribe of ₹30,000 a few days back.
“Today second installment of ₹25,000 was supposed to be paid. However, before paying the bribe amount to the accused person, the complainants approached ACB for taking legal action against the accused public servant under law," he said.
The accused public servant has been identified as Tariq Ahmad Kachroo.
ACB said in a statement that the bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses.
“Subsequently, searches were carried out at different locations associated with the accused. Further investigation into the case is going on,” the statement said.
"On receipt of the complaint a Case FIR No. 34/2022 U/S 7 PC Act 1988 was registered," it added.
(KNO)
