Navi Mumbai: The Thane (ACB) anti-corruption bureau team arrested a CidCo executive engineer with a red hand while accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a civil contractor.
Engineers have demanded a bribery of Rs 3 Lakh because they released the payment of six extraordinary bills on Wednesday afternoon.
Defendant Kalyan Patil (57), a class 1 officer attached to the Department of PP & Q Cidco in Raigad Bhawan in CBD-Laktur, has been ordered based on Part 7 Prevention of Corruption Act (Amendment), 2018.
Thane ACB Deputy Maya Police More Informed that on January 18, a civil contractor had filed a complaint with the ACB Thane ACB office who accused the engineer CidCo Kalyan Patil demanded Bribery Rs 3 Lakh from him to release payment of six extraordinary bills for the CidCo contract work.
Painting and sanitizi from Kharghar and Skywalk train stations.
The complainants also accused Patil had received Rs 1.20 lakh bribery from him for releasing the payment of three bills and increasingly demanding Rs 30,000.
Also, because it released the three remaining bills, Patil allegedly told the civil contractor that he would decide on his bribe later.
Manoj Prajapati, Police Inspector, Thane ACB said, “On Wednesday, we verified the complaint of the Civil Contractor and put a trap for Patil Kalyan on the road behind the MGM Hospital in CBD.” Around 1:30 a.m., because Patil arrived in his personal.
The car and accepted RS 30,000 bribes from the contractor in his car, we caught Patil with bribes with bribes.
Patil is a long lasting ACB, “he added.
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