By JKGN Staff
JAMMU: The team of Anti Corruption Bureau has arrested a female Junior Engineer of Jammu Power Development Corporation Limited (JPDCL) red handed for accepting bribe from the complainant.
The arrested JE has been identified as Sushma Parihar, JE (Electrical) of JPDCL and was presently posted at Nai Basti Fish Market, Jammu.
The trap was laid after the ACB team verifying the allegations of the complainant that he had applied for a new electrical connection (Commercial, 3 Phase) for his premises situated at Rani Talab Digiana, Jammu. But, despite completing all the required requirment, the arrested JE was pressing for bribe of Rs 20,000.
On being fed up with JE who has refused to sanctioned the connection untill the illegitimate demands of bribe met, the complainant approached ACB and accordingly trap was laid after registration of case FIR No. 04/2021 in Police station ACB Central Jammu.
Thereafter, a trap team was constituted and independent witnesses including lady officer and magistrate were associated with the same. The trap team laid a successful trap and caught the accused red handed while demanding and accepting the bribe from the complainant. The amount of bribe to the tune of Rs. 20,000/- was also recovered on the spot.