ACB in Gujarat nabs engineer taking bribe from contractor

ACB in Gujarat nabs engineer taking bribe from contractor

Ahmedabad:The Anti Corruption Bureau of Gujarat police today nabbed red-handed an engineer taking bribe of Rs 25 thousand from a contractor in Sola area of the city.

Assistant Director of the ACB DP Chudasma said that additional assistant engineer of the project implementation unit in the Sola civil hospital campus here, P D Prajapati was nabbed during a trap laid near Sola BRTS today.

He had already taken Rs 20 thousand from the complainant, who had got the work order to construct the building of an urban health center. He had submitted a bill of Rs 19 lakh for the work done so far of which Rs 16 lakh were paid to him. The contract based engineer had sought Rs 25 thousand more as his due commission and for not to raise objections with regard to the measurement of the work.

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