Officials of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) on Saturday arrested an employee of the Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Kottayam, on bribery charges. The accused was identified as C.J. Elsy (48), a native of Arpookara near here.
Officials said the accused had accepted ₹15,000 as bribe from a student who had completed MBA from a college affiliated to the university in order to issue a provisional certificate along with the mark list. Though the accused had demanded ₹50,000, she later agreed on ₹30,000. However, the accused insisted on paying the first installment of ₹15,000 by Saturday.
Acting on a complaint lodged by the student, the VACB laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed from the varsity on Saturday afternoon while receiving the bribe. Preliminary investigations suggested that the accused had also received ₹1.25 lakh from the complainant earlier in different installments.
