Maha: Nashik civic official held for accepting bribe

A senior fire department official of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) was today arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5000, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials said.

Rajendra Bairangi, NMC's fire-brigade head-office chief, had demanded a bribe through a private person to issue a no-objection certificate to a maternity hospital here, a release by ACB's Nashik unit said.

Following a complaint by the hospital authorities, a trap was laid this afternoon and Bairagi was apprehended while taking the bribe, it said.

A case under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered and investigations are on, ACB officials said.