Circle Officer among two held on graft charge

The state vigilance department today arrested a Circle Officer (CO) and a revenue department employee on graft charge from Bihar's Saharsa and Gaya districts respectively, an official release said.

Acting on a tip off, a flying squad of the vigilance department laid a trap and arrested the CO Anil Kumar Singh as soon as he took a Rs 20,000 bribe at his rented house in Saharsa town from one Mohan Kumar Yadav, a native of Gobargadha village under Saharsa police station area, the release said.

Singh had demanded a bribe of Rs 40,000 from Yadav to release salary arrears and settled the deal upon payment of Rs 20,000 about which Yadav lodged a complaint with the anti-graft agency, it said.
 

The tainted CO was being brought to Patna for interrogation and would be produced before a designated court for judicial remand in due course, the release said.

In a related matter, a revenue employee Kesho Prasad, posted at Vajirpur block in Gaya district, was arrested by another vigilance team from his office for accepting Rs 5,000 as bribe from one Ramchandra Thakur, a native of Orail village, for mutation of land belonging to the latter.

Prasad too would be brought to the state capital for interrogation before being produced at a designated court for judicial remand, the release added.