Consumer Forum member arrested for graft

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has arrested a member of District Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum for taking a bribe of Rs 50,000 for giving favourable order in a case.
Vinod Negi, executive officer in The Institute of Charted Accountants of India, had complained that Surender Singh Fonia, member of the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum (South I) Mehrauli demanded Rs 50,000 from him, Additional Commissioner of Police (ACB) Alok Kumar said.
Fonia was caught by ACB officials while accepting Rs 50,000 from Negi, he said.
Negi had filed the case against a private developer with whom he had booked a flat in 2006 and which was to be delivered in 2009 but the terms and conditions of the agreement were not fulfilled.

The case was filed in 2012 and Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum (South I) and final hearing was on August 22. Negi allegedly received a telephone call from Fonia demanding "bribe" for a "favourable" order, the officer said.
A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered at ACB police station against the accused, he added.