Vig nabs official on charge of accepting Rs 1 lakh bribe

Vigilance sleuths today arrested an upper division clerk on graft charge from Bihar's Arwal district, Vigilance department release said.

A Vigilance Investigation Bureau caught an upper division clerk Premchandra Tiwari posted with Circle office, Arwal, red handed while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh.

A flying squad team under Deputy Superintendent of Police Vijay Kumar Singh raided and caught Tiwari red-handed while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh from his rented accomodation near Block Colony in Arwal.

The accused would be produced before a Special Vigilance Court (I) at Patna after interrogation, the release said.
 

Altogether 83 persons have been arrested in 76 trap cases laid by the Bureau so far in 2016.