A head clerk of the Labour department was today arrested on charges of accepting bribe from an industrialist in his office in the steel city here, official sources said.
Sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the state arrested the head clerk, Ashwini Kumar of Labour department while accepting Rs.4000 from the industrialist, Manoj Kumar Singh in his office, Deputy Superintendent of Police (ACB), Sravan Kumar said.
The head clerk had been demanding bribe to move the file related to renewal of company's license, which forced the industrialist to register a complaint with the ACB in this regard, he said.
Based on the complaint, the ACB team raided the department office and arrested Ashwini Kumar while he was accepting the bribe, he said.
The ACB sleuths also searched the house of Ashwini Kumar and recovered four bank pass books having altogether over seven lakhs and a case of about Rs.1.78 lakh from his house.
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Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party's Goa unit today demanded a probe by an independent agency into the allegations against the IGP.
"This looks like prima facie it is a case of corruption. The allegations levelled against IGP are of serious nature. The investigation needs to be done by an independent agency," AAP Goa spokesman Rupesh Shinkre said.
"We don't trust any agency which is controlled by Goa government to conduct fair investigation in the case. Either a court-monitored investigation or probe by Special Investigation Team (SIT) should be conducted in the matter," Shinkre said.
Criticising the CM, he said, "Parsekar has reinstated his own brother-in-law (Dilip Malavankar) who was arrested while accepting bribe. What can be expected from such a chief minister."
He said Goa police will not be able to conduct an impartial inquiry into the allegations as Garg is a high-ranking officer in the (police) department.
