A Jodhpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) official was today arrested by Anti Corruption sleuths while allegedly accepting bribe from a shop owner here.
According to the acting DIG of ACB, Narpat Singh Rathore, one Lalit Singh had given a complaint to the ACB that an Encroachment Incharge of the JMC Neelam Ramani was demanding a bribe of Rs 1 lac from him and threatening of seizing his shop.
"Singh has a rented shop on Fort Road, where he was carrying out some additional construction. Ramani was threatening him to cease the work terming the work to be illegal", said Rathore.
After verification of a complaint, the ACB sleuths planned a trap.
"Ramani called Singh with the first installment of Rs 50,000 near the Olympic Tower on Saturday (today afternoon)," said Rathore.
The moment, he received the money from Singh, the ACB sleuths, in plain cothes, caught Ramani abd arrest him, he said.
"We seized the money from Ramani and have initiated action against him", Rathore said.
