Electricity deptt clerk caught taking Rs 15,000 bribe

Vigilance sleuths today caught an accounts clerk of electricity department while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from Fatuha in Patna district.
Acting on a tip off, a flying squad of the vigilance department laid a trap and arrested Mohammad Asif, accounts clerk with the electricity department, while taking Rs 15,000 in bribe from his office at Fatuha supply sub-division in Patna
district, the release said.
One Lal Babu Mahto, a resident of Shekh Mohammadpur village under Khusrupur police station of the district, had lodged a complaint with the Vigilance Investigation Bureau stating that Asif was demanding a sum of Rs 15,000 for releasing his mother's pension and other arrears.

After verifying the complaint, the Vigilance department constituted a flying squad headed by Deputy SP Munna Prasad, the release said.
The accounts clerk would be produced before the Vigilance court in Patna after completing interrogation.
Altogether 22 persons have been arrested in 21 cases conducted by the department so far this year, the release added.