Pune: A Tehsildar woman from Haveli was surprised to see the RS50,000 transfer made into his account through the UPI application, recently.
He found that the person who made a transfer had a truck seized illegal sand transportation, and he wanted him to solve this problem.
Tehsildar immediately reported this problem to Pune Unit from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) because the actions of truck owners were an effort to give bribes, which was a violation under the privacy of preventing the Corruption Act.
However, ACB officials showed that cases of efforts to provide bribery accounts for the portion of Minuscule from the overall bribery case registered with them.
In fact, only eight complaints like that had reached them in the last five years due to 839 cases registered for demand and receiving bribes by civil servants.
Such cases, where bribes are forcibly offered, known as ‘reverse traps’ cases.
ACB Pune has jurisdiction over Pune, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur.
Police Deputy Supervisor Shrihari Patil said, “Many factors can be attributed to the fact that some government officials approach ACB if someone offers their bribes.” He said the reluctance to report bribery bids could be because bribery seekers exceeded the number of bribes that refused.
“Second, the effort was only reported in a situation where the work carried out was impossible and public servants were under pressure to accept bribes,” he said.
A senior ACB officer told the Toi, “There are some upright officers who don’t like people approaching with ‘bids’.
They immediately throw away people from their offices or approach ACB.” Of the eight cases, said Patil, four cases of forced bribery Registered in Kolhapur, each in Solapur and Sangli and two in Pune.
Advocate Pratap Pardeshi said, “This is a rare case when a servant of the Government submits a complaint with ACB which states that someone from the public offers bribes to him.
In such cases, people generally offer money to public servants, or gold ornaments stored in Files even though government officials do not demand anything from them.
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