A contractual sub-engineer with the Janpad Panchayat here was caught red-handed today while he was allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 10,000.
Santkumar Pandram had demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000 from Satyendra Thakur, husband of Sagar village panchayat sarpanch for clearing his bill for the supply of material used for digging wells under Nirmal Neer Scheme.
Thakur struck the deal for Rs 15,000 and had earlier given Rs 5,000 as first instalment to Pandram on June 9. He later tipped-off Lokayukta Office about it.
Today, when the complainant paid the remaining amount of the bribe to the engineer, Lokayukta sleuths caught him red-handed.
A case has been registered against Panadram under relevant sections of Prevention of Corruption Act and further probe into the matter was on.
