Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s crorepati City Engineer caught while taking bribe

So why our cities are poorly managed? Corruption could be blamed for this. Look at this incident.

City engineer of Vadodara Municipal Corporation was arrested for accepting bribe of Rs 80,000 Tuesday evening by Anti corruption squad of police.

According to Police, Vitthalbhai Tailor, City Engineer of VMC had demanded Rs 1,80,000 bribe from a drainage contractor to approve his work.

As per the police version, the contractor paid Rs. 1,00,000 in first installment to Tailor.

However Tailor was caught yesterday evening red-handed by Anti Corruption Bureau(ACB) while receiving second installment of Rs 80,000 in his house.

Tailor has Rs 2.5 crore bungalow in Vasna area of Vadodara where he has set up a small office.

In primary investigation, the Police have found that Tailor has four farm houses around Vadodara. His bank account in Andhra bank is also under scanner now.

Anti Corruption Bureau used spy camera to do sting operation of Tailor receiving bribe. ACB also arranged two class-one government officers as witness in this operation.