Vigilance sleuths today arrested two government servants and a middleman on graft charges from Aurangabad and Begusarai districts of Bihar.
Vigilance personnel caught red-handed one Dev Kumar Prasad, posted as Branch Manager of Madhya Bihar Grameen Bank under Obra block of Aurangabad district, while they were allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 23,000 for sanctioning a loan, an official release said.
One Vijay Kumar Singh, a resident of Narho Dihri under Khudwan police station of the district, had lodged a complaint with the Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) that the branch manager was demanding a bribe of Rs 28,000 for sanctioning a loan of Rs 2.80 lakh.
After verifying the complaint, a flying squad was constituted under Vigilance Deputy SP Vinay Kumar Singh who was caught red-handed while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 23,000 from the branch of the rural bank in the district.
The accused would be produced before a Special Vigilance Court (I) at Patna after interrogation, the release said.
In another trap case, Matuki Rajak, a resident of Muradpur village under Veerpur police station of Begusarai district, had lodged a complaint with the Vigilance that the accused Prabhakar Singh, a revenue employee with Veerpur circle of the district, has been demanding bribe of Rs 36,000 for carrying out mutation of land.
After verifying the complaint, Vigilance constituted a flying squad headed by DySP Munna Prasad who arrested Prabhakar Singh and a middleman Krishna Mohan Das alias Karari while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 36,000 from the compplainant from a private office located at Veerpur Surha chowk in the district.
The accused persons would be produced before a Special Vigilance Court (II) at Patna after interrogation, it said.
Vigilance has, so far, arrested 39 persons on graft charges in 35 trap cases laid by the department in 2016, the release said.
