Vig arrests agriculture officer accepting Rs 13,500 bribe

Vigilance Investigation Bureau today caught red-handed a Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer while accepting a bribe of Rs 13,500 in Bihar's Darbhanga district, the Department release said.
Vigilance sleuths arrested one Prafulla Kumar Jha, Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer at Benipur in Darbhanga district, while accepting a bribe of Rs 13,500 for clearing the payment to the complainant, the release said.
One Mantun Kamat, a resident of Dekuli village of Darbhanga district, had lodged a complaint with the vigilance bureau that Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer Prafulla Kumar Jha was demanding a bribe of Rs 15,000 for clearing the payment against the work done in the district.

The complaint was verified by the bureau during which the allegations of demand for bribe was found to be correct. Besides, the officer also agreed to make payment to the complaint for Rs 13,500 during verification, the release said.
A team of constituted under Deputy Superintendent of Police Vinay Kumar Singh who raided and caught Prafulla Kumar Jha, Sub-Divisional Agriculture Officer, red-handed while accepting bribe money, it said.
The officer was arrested from a place right in front of agriculture office of Benipur.
A total of six persons have been arrested in five trap cases laid out by the Bureau so far in 2018, the release said.