Merut, Jan 28: One Junior Engineer of the Irrigation Department was caught red-handed taking a bribe of 2 lakh rupees in Meerut. Besides the 2 lakhs, the Vigilance team also found 54 thousand rupees in the JE's pocket and 7.46 lakh rupees from his car.
A total of 10 lakh rupees has been recovered.
The Vigilance officer said that JE Brijraj Singh had demanded a bribe from a contractor in exchange for processing his payment. The contractor had been harassed for quite some time.
After this, the contractor contacted the Vigilance & following which Vigilance prepared a trap strategy. After this, the contractor was sent to the JE. As soon as the contractor gave the amount to JE , the Vigilance team caught him.
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