ACB Gujarat nabs a Junior Clerk for taking bribe to issue marriage certificates

Gandhinagar: Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat has nabbed a junior clerk of the marriage branch of superintendent registrar office in sector-14 near KH-05 circle in Gandhinagar in a bribe case of Rs 2500.

The complainant goes for registration of marriages of Christians that have not taken place in a church at the superintendent registrar office. He wanted to get certified copies after legal registration of the marriages in the register after submitting registration certificates of the marriages to the superintendent registrar office. According to ACB, the accused junior clerk Kalpesh Ishwarbhai Vaghela earlier demanded a bribe of Rs 3500, considering Rs 100 per certified copy for 33 marriages. He had already accepted Rs 1000 at the time of pre-recording from the complainant. The complainant contacted ACB as he was not willing to pay the remaining amount of Rs 2500. The accused junior clerk was found taking a bribe of Rs 2500 from the complainant during a trap executed by ACB on 28th October.