Gandhinagar: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday trapped a Class-1 officer while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹1 lakh in his office. The accused, Upendrakumar Krantilal Sutaria, is serving as In-charge Assistant Municipal Commissioner and Tax Collector at the Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation. According to the ACB, the complainant in the case is engaged in the business of buying and selling vehicles through an authorised vehicle dealership. The complainant had sold a vehicle i...Read More

Veraval: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today caught a government contractor red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹10,000 in Veraval. According to the ACB, the accused has been identified as Hasambhai Jumabhai Jate-Musagra (66), a government contractor associated with the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and linked with marine cage culture-related work. He is a resident of Lucky Colony on Talala Road, behind Quba Masjid in Veraval. As per the ACB, the complain...Read More

Banaskantha: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) carried out a decoy trap operation on Monday and caught an employee of a vehicle fitness centre in Palanpur while accepting a bribe of ₹3,000. As per the details of the case, the ACB had received a tip-off that staff at the GHV Fitness Center at Chadotar, which has been authorised by the Government Transport Department to check the fitness of vehicles, were allegedly demanding illegal gratification ranging from ₹500 to ₹50,000 from applicants ...Read More

Tapi: In a decoy operation, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) caught a Class-3 employee of the Fisheries Department red-handed while accepting a bribe of ₹6,000 at Ukai. The accused, Tejasbhai Rameshbhai Chaudhary, is posted as Assistant Fisheries Superintendent (Class-3) at the office of the Assistant Director of Fisheries, Inter-Local Fisheries Development Centre, Ukai. The ACB had received a complaint that officials at the Fisheries office in Ukai were demanding bribes ranging from ₹5,000...Read More

Gandhinagar: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday successfully trapped a senior officer of the State Intelligence Bureau while allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹80,000 in Gandhinagar. The accused has been identified as Ketanbhai Girishbhai Dave, Senior Intelligence Officer with the State Intelligence Bureau, posted at the Sanand Centre of the Ahmedabad Region. According to ACB officials, an alert citizen had approached the bureau with a complaint stating that the officer had demanded...Read More

Tapi: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday caught a government auditor red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 in a trap carried out near Unchamal village in Vyara taluka. According to ACB officials, the accused, Dharmeshkumar Ratilal Vasava, was posted as Auditor Grade-2 (Milk), Special Auditor at the Milk Audit Office, Nanpura, Surat. His accomplice, Jetalkumar Sujitbhai Gamit, was also caught during the trap. ACB said the auditor had recently audited the milk cooperative socie...Read More

Rajkot: A special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Rajkot has sentenced a retired income tax officer to four years of rigorous imprisonment in a seven-year-old bribery case involving ₹15,000. Special ACB Judge V.K. Bhatt also imposed a ₹1 lakh fine on the 66-year-old convict, Maulesh Mehta. Failure to pay the fine will attract an additional six months of simple imprisonment. The case dates back to March 2019, when Mehta was posted at the Income Tax office in Rajkot. He allegedly d...Read More

Anand: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday trapped a police sub inspector of Khambhat city foraccepting a bribe Rs. 30,000 in connection with providing a police opinion on land-related applications.The accused is Pankajkumar Parshottambhai Patel, P.S.I., Class-3 from Khambhat City Police Station. The trap was carried out near Lal Darwaza Police Chowki. According to ACB, the complainant and his partner owned land in Khambhat city and had allotted plots on it. As the land fell under the ...Read More

Surat: A suspended Class I officer who served as executive engineer of the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) surrendered before the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday in a bribery case involving him and an aide who allegedly posed as a journalist. ACB officials said the engineer, Vipul Ganeshwala, will be produced in court on Saturday to seek remand, while efforts continue to trace his absconding associate, Ismail Khan alias Parvana. Ganeshwala is accused of demanding ₹15 lakh from a b...Read More

Palanpur: An outsourced data entry operator at the mamlatdar office in Varahi, Patan district, was caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 7,000. According to ACB officials, Mahesh Kumar alias Mukesh Parmar, posted in the ATVT branch, had demanded the money to process an official order from the mamlatdar for issuing a duplicate birth certificate for the complainant’s nephew. After the complainant approached the Patan ACB, officials se...Read More