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Clerk arrested for taking bribe from principal to allow school to function during lockdown

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Press Trust of India Dumka (Jharkhand)

A clerk of the

Education Department was arrested on Wednesday in Jharkhand's Dumka for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to allow a school to function even after the lockdown was imposed, police said.

Mohd Iftikar, who is a clerk at Dumka Education Office, was arrested by the sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), they said.

He allegedly demanded Rs 4 lakh from the principal of the school to allow it to function during the lockdown, police said.

The principal reached out to the ACB, following which a trap was laid and the clerk was caught while taking the money near the post office here, Superintendent of Police (ACB) Manilal Mandal told reporters.

 

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First Published: Apr 08 2020 | 8:34 PM IST

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