The Anti -Corruption Bureau (ACB) team on Sunday arrested a gram panchayat administrator in Pali district, allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh. The officers provided this information.
Officials said that Arun Kumar, administrator of Gram Panchayat Junda (Panchayat Samiti Marwar Junction), has been arrested in a bribery case. Bureau’s Additional Director General Smita Srivastava said that the complainant had complained that in lieu of making lease of his residential house, accused administrator Arun Kumar is being harassed by demanding bribe of Rs 2,70,000 (two lakh seventy thousand rupees).
He said that by verifying the complaint, the bureau team arrested the accused Arun Kumar on Sunday, taking 1,50,000 Indian currency and 50 thousand dummy notes) as the first installment of a total bribe amount. He said that further investigation is being done in the case.