Lokayukta officials caught a Panchayat Raj Engineering Department engineer and seized cash and valuables from his house in Belagavi district.
The officials caught Duradundeshwar Bannur, who is an Assistant Executive Officer of the Panchayat Raj Engineering Department in Khanapur, on Tuesday on the charge of accepting bribes.
Acting on a complaint from gram panchayat members, the officials arrested Mr. Bannur when he was accepting the bribe. He had demanded and was accepting the consideration to clear some pending bills of MGNREGA.