Vigilance sleuths today arrested an Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of Nawada while accepting a bribe of Rs 4 lakh from Nawada district, a Vigilance department release said.
The Vigilance Investigation Bureau caught Maharshi Ram, an Additional District Magistrate, Nawada, red handed while accepting a bribe of Rs four lakh for allegedly favouring the complainant in a mutation case.
One Hiralal, a resident of Hisua village under Hisua police station of Nawada district, had lodged a complaint with the Vigilance department that ADM Maharshi Ram was demanding a bribe of Rs five lakh from him for giving an order in his (complainant's) favour in a mutation dispute case.
The allegations were found to be correct during the verification carried out by the Bureau.
A flying squad team was constituted under Deputy Superintendent of Police Mohammad Zamiruddin who raided and caught Maharshi Ram, the ADM, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs f9our lakh from his official residence at Nawada.
The accused would be produced before the Special Vigilance Court(I) at Patna after interrogation, the release said.
Altogether 79 persons have been arrested in 72 trap cases laid by the Bureau so far in 2016.
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