NEW DELHI: A 54-year-old MCD official was arrested by sleuths of the anti-corruption branch (ACB) while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000. He had demanded the bribe to allow an automobile repairing shop on the footpath in RK Puram.
The accused was identified as Vinod Kumar, a resident of Nirankari Colony. He was posted as a lower division clerk in MCD (south zone).
Additional commissioner of police (ACB) Madhur Verma said, the 42-year-old complainant, a resident of RK Puram, informed them that Kumar and one beldar were harassing him to pay a bribe of Rs 10,000 per month for running an automobile repair shop on the footpath in RK Puram Sector-7.
"After verification, a team was constituted and a trap was laid on Wednesday near the workshop of the complainant. Kumar was caught red-handed, in the presence of independent witnesses, while he was receiving the bribe amount," the officer said.
A case under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered. "Further investigation in the case is going on to find out other accomplices of the accused involved in the matter," the officer said.
He is the second corporation employee to have fallen in the ACB net within a week.
Earlier, ACB sleuths had conducted an operation on Saturday and arrested an MCD official for demanding a bribe of Rs two lakh on the pretext of reducing a penalty. The accused, Inderjeet, was posted at Civil Lines. The complainant said his property in the Civil Lines area was sealed by MCD personnel on July 26. Later, the assessment and collection department of the civic body sent him a notice, demanding Rs 20 lakh.
