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Jammu, Oct 23: Special Judge Anticorruption (CBI Cases) J&K Jammu Kaneez Fatima today granted four days CBI remand of Kewal Krishan Sharma, Assistant Director, Handicrafts, Union Ministry of Textiles who was caught red-handed by the CBI on October 22, 2013 while accepting bribe of Rs 75,000 from a NGO chairman.
He was arrested by CBI when he received Rs 75,000 from NGO chairperson M R Puri of Bishnah at Khalsa Chowk, Nanak Nagar in lieu of Rs 10 lakh worth payment released in favour of NGO named-Mahila Grameen Hastkala Welfare Sadan, Bishnah for a training programme organised by it at Kathua for six months for the women.
The NGO had been paid Rs 10 lakh payment in two instalments of Rs 5 lakh each.
Kewal Krishan Sharma, a resident of Preet Nagar, KC Colony, Digiana had been demanding Rs 75,000 corruption from the NGO for the payment released in its favour.
He was posted in Udhampur, and had asked Puri to make the payment to him at Jammu at Khalsa Chowk, Nanak Nagar, decided as the venue. (JNF) |
