Thomas (Special correspondent)
Officials of Anti Corruption Bureau on Tuesday trapped and arrested First Division Assistant working in Deputy commissioner,administration office in BBMP while accepting a bribe from a contractor for an official favour of getting the pending bills due to him.
The accused officer, identified as,H Raju,was caught red handed while accepting Rs.15,000.
Senior ACB official said,The complainant is a contractor who supplied furniture to the bbmp offices in May this year and submitted the bill .
Raju had demanded the bribe to put up the file to the officials concerned to sanction the amount.
Unable to pay the bribe,the contractor approached the ACB and filed a complaint following which a trap was laid and Raju was caught at his office red handed while accepting bribe.
He was booked under Prevention of Corruption Act and taken into custody for further investigations he added.
