The ACB today arrested head of the Sociology Department in Sardar Patel University in Anand district for allegedly accepting Rs 90,000 cash to "clear" the PhD degree of a student.
A complaint in this regard was filed by a PhD student, who had already paid Rs 2.10 lakh to the accused H N Patel, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) said.
"The professor and HoD of Sociology department, Patel, was caught red handed, when he was accepting money from his PhD student. The trap was laid after the student complained that a demand of Rs 6 lakh was made by the professor to clear his thesis and confer the degree," an ACB release said.
In the complaint, the student, whose identity has been withheld by ACB, alleged that Patel first demanded Rs 6 lakh from him and then agreed to grant him the degree for Rs 3 lakh.
"The student has already paid Rs 2.10 lakh to Patel, who kept of demanding the remaining amount of Rs 90,000 from the student," the ACB said.
After receiving the complaint, the ACB laid a trap and asked the student to call Patel at the common parking of a bank at Vallabh Vidyanagar, where he was nabbed, the release added.
