Irrigation department's junior engineer Satyendra Kumar was today arrested on graft charge by the Vigilance Investigation Bureau from Bihar's Nawada district, an official release said.
Acting on a complaint, the VIB team headed by the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Vinay Kumar Singh laid a trap and arrested Kumar from his house near Pakriwaram camp office as soon as he took Rs. 30,000 as bribe from one Praveen Kumar Singh, a native of Bihari Village under Jamui police station area in Jamui district, the release said.
The tainted JE had demanded Rs 30,000 as bribe for measurement report of an irrigation project, it said.
Kumar was being brought to the state capital for interrogation before production before a special vigilance court for judicial remand, the release added.
The vigilance department has laid 25 traps against corrupt public servants and arrested 26 persons so far this year.
