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Maha: Senior FDA official held for graft

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Press Trust of India Aurangabad

The Anti-Corruption Bureau in

Maharashtra's Beed city arrested the assistant commissioner of Food and Drug Administration for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 35,000, police said on Friday.

Acting on a tip-off, the ACB caught Krishna Namdev Dabhade (52) while accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000 in his office itself, an official said.

The accused had demanded a bribe from the complainant, for renewing the licence of his flour mill, he said.

An offence has been filed at Shivajinagar police station in Beed.

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First Published: Mar 20 2020 | 6:46 PM IST

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