MUMBAI: A deputy tehsildar of Bhiwandi division was caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), along with two private persons, including a jeweller, for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh from a farmer whose land had been acquired by the Railways.
The arrest of deputy tehsildar Vithal Gosavi and seizure of 43 farmers’ cheques of different banks—having a value of Rs 2.34 crore—has opened up a Pandora’s box and compelled the Anti-Corruption Bureau to probe a wider angle of corruption where the tehsildar used to take advance cheques (bribes) from the farmers so that when the Railways transfer the compensation for land acquisition, the accused could encash their cheques.
