ACB in Gujarat nabs exec. engineer taking 1.50 lakh bribe, head clerk also nabbed for taking Rs 10 thousand

Vadodara/Himmatnagar: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat police today nabbed red handed an executive engineer in Vadodara taking bribe of Rs 1.50 lakh and a head clerk taking bribe of Rs 10 thousand in Himmatnagar.

Assistant Director of ACB, DP Chudasama said that Mukund V Patel, executive engineer in the water supply department was nabbed red handed from his office in the Mahanagar Seva Sadan near Khanderao market in Vadodara. He had sought the bribe from the manager of a private company which had got the contract for cleaning of overhead tanks and sump houses in the city, for passing its bills.

In another incident the ACB team laid down another trap in Sabarkantha district headquarter city of Himmatnagar to arrest head clerk in the district education office for taking a bribe of Rs 10 thousand from a school clerk for forwarding his application regarding withdrawal of Rs 1.90 lakh from his GP Fund.

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