Vigilance sleuths today arrested a revenue employee while allegedly accepting bribe of Rs 30,000 from Patna.
State Vigilance Department officials caught one Chandrama Kumar, a revenue employee posted with Sadar Circle of Patna district, red handed for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000, a vigilance department release said.
One Ashok Kumar, a resident of Purandarpur under Jakkanpur police station area of Patna district, lodged a complaint with Vigilance department that the accused Chandrama Kumar, a revenue employee, was demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 for mutation of land.
After the verification of the complaint by the department in which allegations of bribe was found to be true, the department constituted a flying squad team, headed by Deputy SP Vinay Kumar Singh, which arrested Chandrama Kumar from a private office located at Uttari Mandiri area in Patna town while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000.
The accused person would be produced before a Special Vigilance Court (I) at Patna after interrogation.
Vigilance has, so far, arrested 52 persons red handed on charge of accepting bribe in 47 trap cases laid by the department, the release said.
