2 senior Sales Tax officials caught taking Rs 3 lakh bribe

A Deputy Commissioner and an Assistant Commissioner of Sales Tax Department were today caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh, claimed Lokayukta Police.
Lokayukta Inspector KK Agrawal said that the arrest late last night had occurred following a complaint last evening against the duo -- Deputy Commissioner HS Thakur and Assistant Commissioner Jalaj Rawat -- by one Suresh Yadav.
Sharing the details of the case, the inspector said that Yadav in his complaint had mentioned that he had started a peppermint business in Chhattarpur district some months ago.
"However, Thakur and Rawat began to trouble him and sought a monthly cut (bribe) of Rs 3 lakh from him," added Agrawal.

Acting on the complaint, a trap was laid and Thakur and Rawat were caught accepting the bribe at the former's residence at around 11.30 PM yesterday.
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Vigilance sleuths had also arrested two others on
Tuesday in Aska and Boudh for allegedly accepting bribes.
Junior engineer (Aska block) in Ganjam district, Meheboob Alam was arrested for allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 from a village labour leader to process pending bills of the labourers.
In another case, K Kameswar Patra, section officer in the divisional manager office, Odisha Forest Development Corporation, Boudh, was arrested for allegedly accepting Rs 3,000 bribe from a person to process and prepare his pending transportation bill, a vigilance official said.