A vigilance team today arrested Laxman Prasad, the Project Director of Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), on graft charge from Bihar's East Champaran district, an official release said.
Acting on a complaint, a vigilance team led by the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Vinay Kumar Singh laid a trap and caught the Project Director (ATMA) Laxman Prasad red-handed while accepting Rs. 5,000 in bribe at his office from a man, the release said.
Prasad had damanded bribe of the above mentioned amount from one Vaidnath Sharma, a native of Dighra village under Pusa police station area, for releasing his salary, it said.
The tainted Project Director (ATMA) has been taken to Muzaffarpur where he will produced before a designated judge (vigilance) for judicial remand, the release added.
The vigilance department has so far this year laid 89 traps and arrested 100 government servants of graft charge, it said.
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