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| ACB arrests associate of Patwari Digiana while accepting bribe of Rs. 15,000 | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 10: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) trapped and arrested Jatinder Kumar alias Jatin, associate of Arish Parvaiz, Patwari, Halqa, Digiana while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs. 15,000 for issuance of Fard Intkhab on behalf of Patwari who is absconding.
ACB received a complaint alleging that Arish through Jatinder is demanding bribe amounting to Rs. 15,000 from the complainant for issuance of Fard Intakab. The complainant alleged that his brother-in-law intends to sell a piece of land comprising 6.6 marlas falling under Khasra number 150-min situated at Dashmesh Nagar, Gangyal, Jammu and has applied for the issuance of Fard Intakab.
The concerned Patwari did not provide the same despite fulfilling all the formalities. Since his brother-in-law resides at Akhnoor so he has asked the complainant to follow the same on his behalf with Patwari concerned. The complainant visited many times the Patwari concerned and requested him to issue the Fard Intikhab but instead of issuing the fard the Patwari demanded Rs. 15,000 from the complainant. The associate of the Patwari has also called the complainant number of times to pay the bribe money for issuance of the Fard.
On receipt of the instant complaint, prima facie offence U/s 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 r/w section 120-B IPC was found made out. Consequently, case FIR No. 04/2022 was registered in P/S ACB Central and investigation taken-up. During the course of investigation, a trap team was constituted.
The team caught associate of the Patwari red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs. 15,000 from the complainant on behalf of Patwari. He was arrested on spot by the ACB team while the accused fled from the spot. The bribe money was also recovered from his possession in presence of independent witnesses. The Patwari is absconding and is still at large. |
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