ACB nabs GEB junior engineer for taking bribe to install electric meter

Bharuch: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Gujarat has nabbed a Class-2 junior engineer of Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB) for asking for a bribe in order to install an electric meter. The case is of Hansot taluka of Bharuch district.

According to ACB, the complainant had filed an application in Hansot GEB office for installing an electric meter in his office. As per the official quotation, the complainant had to pay Rs. 21, 191 as installation fee. However, the accused Jr. engineer Dhaval Patel demanded an additional amount of Rs. 14,000 as bribe for installing the meter.

The final amount on which both the parties agreed at the end after bargaining was Rs. 10,000. But the complainant was not ready to pay the bribe and thus contacted ACB. To catch the accused red handed, a trap was laid by the PI of Bharuch ACB police station, S.V. Vasava and his team under the supervision of P.H. Bhesaniya, Assistant Director – ACB Vadodara unit. The accused accepted his fault after being exposed. DeshGujarat