Gift envelops containing cash worth around 1.50 lakh seized by ACB near old secretariat on Labh Pancham

Gandhinagar: In its continued operation against Diwali and New Year gift to government officials in Gujarat, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) today recovered around Rs one lakh 50 thousand cash kept in two gift envelops allegedly meant for two senior official of Food and Drugs Department from two persons near old secretariat premises here.

Assistant Director of the ACB K T Kamaria said that the bureau which was conducting sudden raids in various government offices across the state since almost a week prior to Diwali, has deployed four teams near Swarnim Sankul 1-2 (the new secretariat in which the Chief Minister office is also situated), Udyog Bhavan and Old secretariat.

Today on the occasion of Labh Pancham (the fifth day of the Gujarati new year which is deemed auspicious) the ACB sleuths nabbed two persons near the old secretariat gate with two gift covers with cash worth Rs 34900 and 113000. The covers allegedly contained the names of two senior office of the Food and Drug Control Administration office situated in the premises of the old secretariat.

The matter was being further investigated.

Notably, the ACB had conducted anti gift raids in various government offices in recent times and recovered cash and goods. It is probably for the first time that the Bureau has kept its teams on watch at the state headquarters.

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