Vigilance sleuths today caught a sub-inspector of police red handed while he was accepting a bribe of Rs 6000 for extending favours to the complainant.
The complainant, a resident of Koahi village of Sitamarhi district, had lodged a complaint with the bureau against the sub-inspector who is in-charge of Mahindwara outpost alleging that he had demanded a bribe of Rs 6000 in connection with a case lodged in Runnisaidpur police station.
After verifying the complaint the team led by deputy superintendent of police Munna Prasad conducted a raid and caught the accused while accepting a bribe.
The bureau has so far arrested 14 persons in 14 trap cases laid down by the bureau in 2016. This is the fifth trap case in February.
Thomas also instructed that the corrective actions to be
taken based on the organisation study, potential of corruption in various organisations, methods to measure delays in files, modus of corruption etc may be appraised to the 'vigilance cell' as part of the capacity building.
As a mark of protest over VACB Chief's "vindictive attitude and way of functioning" a group of top bureaucrats had decided to proceed on mass casual leave but called it off at the last moment after Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan came out tough against them.
Vijayan had told them that their move cannot be justified in any manner and the government would not interfere in the vigilance cases.
The latest provocation for the IAS officials was the VACB's decision to name Additional Chief Secretary (Industries) Paul Antony as third accused in the case related to alleged nepotism in appointment of a relative by former Industries Minister E P Jayarajan, the first accused in the case.
Paul Antony was the fourth IAS officer to come under the scanner of Vigilance after K M Abraham and Tom Jose, both facing charges of having assets disproportionate to known sources of income and S Padmakumar, former Managing Director of state-run Malabar Cements, who was arrested for alleged irregularities in the company.
