Clerk caught taking Rs 1.5 lakh bribe

A clerk posted in the Town and Country Planning Department (T&CP) here was today caught red-handed by Lokayukta sleuths taking a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from a real-estate company.
The clerk identified as Tejram Kandere demanded the bribe from the real estate company director Rejesh Sharma.
Acting on a tip-off, the sleuths laid a trap and caught Kandere the moment he took the money from Sharma, Lokayukta DSP BS Parihar told PTI.
Sharma's company wanted to sell plots on a five acre land at Khandwa Road for which he applied for a permission to Town and Country Planning Department and to arrange the same Kandere demanded Rs 1.5 lakh bribe.

A case under Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against Kandere in this regard.
Lokayukta is also probing the role of senior officials of T&CP department on the issue, Parihar added.