A firka surveyor of the Chetpet taluk near Tiruvannamalai town was arrested by sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Thursday, for demanding and taking a bribe of ₹5,000 from a man who had approached him seeking name change of his patta land.
A team led by S. Velmurugan, Deputy SP, DVAC (Tiruvannamalai), caught surveyor K. Dheenadayalan, 29, red-handed while receiving the bribe from the complainant, V. Sagadevan, 31, of Cheyyanandal village of Chetpet taluk.
DVAC sources said the complainant Sagadevan was a professional photographer for marriages and temple festivals in the village. Sagadevan had bought a land along with his brother from a neighbour, C. Soubhagyam, in 2023. Since the name in the patta was not changed for his portion of land, he had applied for the sub-division of it at the survey section in the Chetpet taluk office on February 16.
