Additional District Collector arrested while taking bribe

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Press Trust of India Jaipur
Last Updated : Mar 14 2015 | 11:42 PM IST
Anti-corruption Bureau sleuths today arrested Additional District Collector of Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan while accepting a bribe of Rs five lakh.
The accused officer, Kajodmal Dudia, had demanded the bribe of Rs 75 lakh from one Pawan Goyal in a matter related to a land-allotment, an official spokesperson said.
He took Rs four lakh a month ago at the time of the verification of the complaint and was trapped when he was accepting Rs five lakh in Hanumangarh, he said.
After the trap, searches were conducted at his two houses, one in Hanumangarh and the other in Bikaner in which the team recovered Rs 64.5 lakh in cash (unaccounted), jewellery worth Rs 10 lakh and documents of a plot located in Jaipur.
The accused RAS officer was placed under arrest, the spokesperson said, adding that searches at the residential premises are on.

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First Published: Mar 14 2015 | 11:42 PM IST

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