Gujarat: Rs 2.9 lakh bribe paid in new Rs 2000 notes, two port trust officials arrested
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Even as citizens struggle to withdraw money and exchange old currencies of Rs 1000 and Rs 500, the Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested two port trust officials accepting bribe of Rs 2.9 lakh bribe, which was paid in new Rs 2000 notes, reported NDTV.
According to the report, a middleman for the two officials had accepted Rs 2.5 lakh from the firm, which was a part of the bribe amount.
Gujarat's Anti-Corruption Bureau official told the channel, "Superintending Engineer P Srivivasu and Sub Divisional officer K Komtekar of the Kandla Port Trust had sought a bribe of Rs. 4.4 lakh for clearing the pending bills of a private electrical firm."
The ACB officials were also stunned to see the whole amount being paid in the newly printed Rs 2000 notes. Officials had laid the trap to arrest the middleman after the electric firm owners tipped them off.
On November 12, a senior assistant of Kolhapur Zilla Pin Maharashtra was arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000, which contained 17 newly introduced Rs 2000 currency notes.
Chandrakant Sawardekar was apprehended by the sleuths of Anti-Corruption Bureau while accepting the bribe from the complainant, who was due for promotion as principal in a zilla parishad-run school.
On November 10, a government official in Maharashtra's Solapur district was arrested after he demanded bribes and insisted he be paid only in the Rs 100 denomination and not in the demonetized Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.
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