Vigilance slueths today caught Khagaria Block Education Officer (BEO) red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in Bihar's Khagaria district.
Vigilance Investigation Bureau officials arrested Khagaria Block Education Officer (BEO) Vijay Kumar Paswan, also holding an dditional charge of Alauli block, while accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a complainant for releasing the salary, a vigilance department release said.
One Chittranjan Kumar, a resident of Sonihar village under Alauli police station of the district, had filed a complaint with Vigilance stating that Paswan, the BEO, demanded a bribe of Rs 1.50 lakh for releasing the salary of his wife Sadhna Sinha, acting Principal of Sonihar middle school of Alauli block, it said.
The officer later agreed to get his work done after taking Rs 1 lakh from the complainant.
After verifying the complaint, Vigilance personnel constituted a flying squad headed by Dy SP Munna Prasad who arrested Paswan while accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from the Block Education Office, Khagaria.
The accused would be produced before a Special Vigilance Court (II), Patna after interrogating him, the release said.
A total of 43 persons have been arrested in 39 trap cases laid by the Vigilance so far in 2016.
