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  • CBI arrests branch manager of Equitas Bank for accepting bribe to approve business loan

    NEW DELHI: A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Akella Srinivas Anudra, branch manager of Dwarakanagar branch of Equitas Small Finance Bank on Monday in Vishakhapatnam, while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.30 lakh from a local businessman to approve a business loan.

    According to the official spokesperson of CBI (HQ) RC Joshi, a local businessman (name withheld as per CBI rule) had approached the manager of said, the branch of Equitas Small Finance Bank for a business loan of Rs 20 lakhs recently.

    The branch manager allegedly demanded 10 per cent of the total amount of applied loan for approving the required amount of business loan. The accused further informed the complainant that his loan was sanctioned but demanded a bribe of Rs 2 lakh for facilitating disbursement of the loan amount.

    “After negotiation, the accused allegedly agreed to reduce the bribe amount from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 1.30 lakh to the complainant,” Joshi said in a statement.

    Finally, fed up with such an act of bribery by Anudra, the businessman turned complainant and registered a case with the CBI against the branch manager.

    After verifying the allegations, a team of CBI officers laid a trap and caught the accused Anudra red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1.30 lakhs from the complainant.

    Joshi further said that the role of a clerk of the Vizianagaram branch of the State Bank of India is also being looked into the case by the CBI. After arresting Anudra, the CBI team conducted simultaneous searches at the office and his residential premises of the accused at Vishakhapatnam and Vizianagaram. Anudra will be produced in the concerned court on Tuesday at Vishakhapatnam.

  • Assam treasury staffer arrested for taking bribe from cop to release PF amount

    By PTI

    NAGOAN: A woman treasury office employee has been arrested for allegedly demanding and accepting bribe from a uniformed policeman in Assam’s Nagaon district.

    Junior Accounts Assistant Khushbu Harlalka was arrested on Wednesday while accepting Rs 1,000 as bribe from constable Nabin Bora to release his Government Provident Fund (GPF) money, Nagaon Superintendent of Police Anand Mishra said.

    “Bora had informed me that she had demanded money from him and a trap was laid to catch her red-handed.

    “A team of policewomen in plain clothes was posted at her office and they videographed her accepting bribe from the constable, and nabbed her,” he added.

  • Two forest officials arrested on bribery charges in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri

    By PTI
    JAMMU: Two forest department officials were arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday for accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 from a person in Rajouri district, officials said here.

    They were identified as forest guard Anil Kumar and forester Ajaz Mirza, the officials added.

    The accused had demanded the bribe to settle a complaint lodged against a man and his family members, the ACB officials said.

    Searches were conducted at offices and residences of the accused after their arrest, they said, adding that an investigation is underway.

  • Vasai-Virar civic clerk demands bribe for tax assessment, held

    By PTI
    PALGHAR: A clerk with the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation was arrested by the Thane unit of the Anti Corruption Bureau for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe, an official said on Saturday.

    Nandkumar Koli (43) demanded Rs 5,000 each for seven rooms from the owner who wanted the former to carry out a civic tax assessment, ACB Inspector Santosh Shevale said.

    “The owner of the rooms approached ACB.

    We laid a trap on Friday and caught Koli red-handed while accepting an initial amount of Rs 15,000,” he said.

  • Revenue officer, aide held for taking Rs 25 lakh bribe in Gujarat

    By PTI
    AHMEDABAD: A revenue officer and his associate have been arrested in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 25 lakh from a land owner, the state Anti-Corruption Bureau said on Wednesday.

    Based on a complaint, the ACB on Tuesday caught the duo red-handed at the mamlatdar (revenue) office in Dholka town here, it said.

    A man, who owns a piece of land near Badarkha village in Dholka taluka, recently submitted an application at the revenue office for making some changes in records pertaining to his land.

    Apart from revision in the land area, the man also applied to restore his status as a farmer, the ACB said.

    The revenue officer allegedly demanded Rs 25 lakh to give his approval for the same, the release said.

    The land owner then complained to the ACB, which laid a trap and caught the accused while accepting the money.

    The ACB recovered Rs 20 lakh from the revenue officer and Rs 5 lakh from his associate, the release said.

  • Special CBI Director Asthana moves HC on FIR against him in bribery case

    Special CBI Director Rakesh Asthana Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court against the lodging of an FIR against him in a bribery case.

    Asthana has sought the high court’s direction that no coercive action be taken against him.

    His petition was mentioned before Chief Justice Rajendra Menon, who allocated the matter to an appropriate bench that will hear it in the post-lunch session.

    The CBI had yesterday arrested its DSP Devender Kumar in connection with bribery allegations involving the investigative agency’s second-in-command, Asthana.

    Kumar, earlier the investigating officer in a case involving meat exporter Moin Qureshi, was arrested yesterday by the CBI on the allegations of forgery in recording the statement of businessman Sathish Sana, who had alleged to have paid bribe to get relief in the case.

    In his statement, Sana had purportedly said that he had in June this year discussed his case with Telugu Desam Party’s Rajya Sabha member C M Ramesh who, after speaking to the CBI Director, had assured him that he would not be summoned again.

    “From June onwards, I was not called by the CBI. I was under the impression that investigation against me is complete,” he is believed to have said.

    The CBI has now alleged that Kumar had fabricated this statement as an “afterthought…To corroborate the baseless allegations made by Asthana against CBI Director Alok Verma to the CVC (Central Vigilance Commissioner)”.

    They said the agency was also looking into the alleged role of other members of the special investigation team headed by Asthana.

    Asthana, who was booked by the agency on bribery charges in an unprecedented action, had complained against Verma on August 24, 2018.