Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
District Health Officer (DHO) of Department of Health and Family Welfare was caught red handed by the Lokayukta police on Saturday evening after he took Rs.40,000 bribe from an employee of a private hospital.
Senior lokayukta official said,the DHO of Bengaluru Urban identified as Dr B Niranjan was caught accepting bribe amount of Rs 40,000.He has been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act and further investigation is on.
He further said that during investigation it was found that Niranjan had demanded Rs.1.25 lakh bribe to give permission for the functioning of a new hospital coming up in Kannamangala.
The hospital had submitted application on October 17,seeking permission to start hospital.Niranjan had demanded Rs.1.25 lakh.
After bargaining the complainant and Niranjan scaled down the bribe amount to Rs.40,000.All the talks happened on Saturday.
The complainant didn’t want to pay the bribe.He filed complaint to Lokayukta,as per their instructions the complainant contacted Niranjan and informed him that he is brining money to his office.
Niranjan asked him to meet near Iskcon temple in the evening when he will be returning to his house in Vijayanagar.
The complainant met Niranjan on the road around 7.40 pm.The Lokayukta police caught him red handed and took him to custody and after interrogation the team has arrested him and booked under prevention of corruption act and investigating further by SP Lokayukta Ashok he added.
