DNA: Mumbai: Sunday, July 26, 2015.
Anti-Corruption
Bureau (ACB) sleuths on Saturday arrested an RTI activist and a BMC engineer
for allegedly accepting a bribe.
Those
arrested have been identified as Ranjeet Yadav (32), the activist, and Yogesh
Pandit (27), a junior engineer with the buildings and factories department of S
ward.
According to
ACB officials, the complainant is a resident of Tulsetpada in Bhandup and was
doing repair work in his hutment, which he has made into a ground-plus-one
structure. "Yadav had filed a complaint with the BMC against him for his
unauthorised work in his hutment. A notice under MRTP Act was then issued to
the complainant by the BMC to stop the repair work," the official said.
He added that
when the complainant met Pandit to make inquiries about the notice, the latter
told him to meet Yadav. Yadav told the complainant that to take the complainant
back and get the MRTP notice cancelled, he would have to cough up Rs25,000.
"The
complainant did not wanted to pay bribe and, hence, approached the ACB. On
Saturday, the accused called the complainant to Bhandup. A trap was laid and
both Yadav and Pandit were caught red-handed," said the official.
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