JAMMU, Jan 20:ACB received a complaint that Anil Jamwal, Jr. Assistant posted in the office of Superintending Engineer PWD R&B Udhampur and Jeet Kumar Computer operator posted in the office of Executive Engineer PWD R&B Udhampur demanded the bribe from the complainant for issuance of contractor card.
Since, the complainant did not want to pay bribe, he approached ACB for taking legal action against the accused public servant under law.
On receipt of the compliant, a discreet verification was conducted, which corroborated the demand of bribe by the public servant concerned and accordingly, a case FIR No. 02/2026 U/S 07 of Prevention of Corruption, Act, 1988 and Section 61(2) BNS, 2023 was registered at PS ACB Udhampur and investigation was taken-up.
During the course of investigation, a trap team headed by Dy. SP Rank Officer was constituted.
The team laid a successful trap and accused public servants were caught red-handed while demanding and accepting bribe amount ₹12000 from the complainant in the presence of independent witnesses.
The bribe money was also recovered from the possession of accused in presence of independent witnesses associated with the trap team. Moreover, searches were also conducted at Ram Nagar and Laddan Power House Udhampur respectively, in presence of Magistrate.
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