Georai nayab tehsildar, aide held for taking bribe

Aurangabad: A nayab tehsildar posted in Georai taluka of Beed district, about 125 km from here, was arrested by the anti-corruption bureau for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a sand trader for releasing his vehicle. Police also arrested another man along with the tehsildar in connection with the case.

The arrested suspects have been identified as Pralhad Sadashivrao Lokhande (47) and Syed Majed (39). A case against the duo has been registered with the Georai police station under relevant sections of Prevention of Corruption Act, following which they were officially arrested.

ACB authorities said that the suspect revenue staffer took the bribe amount through the other suspect. Superintendent of police (ACB) Arvind Chawria said that recently, the revenue department officials had intercepted a truck carrying sand and had blamed him for stealing the sand and carrying it without paying royalty.

Meanwhile, the tehsildar allegedly demanded bribe of Rs one lakh from the truck owner for releasing the vehicle. Unwilling to grease palms of the revenue staffer, he reached out to Beed ACB office and lodged a complaint in this regard.

A team of ACB, in the presence of a government panch carried out verification of the complaint, only to find that the revenue staffer demanded the bribe amount for releasing the vehicle. Accordingly, a trap was laid on Wednesday afternoon at the tehsildar office in Georai. The tehsildar asked the victim to hand over the said amount to the other suspect. It was soon after the other suspect accepted the powdered currency notes, a team led by deputy superintendent of police Balkrishna Hanpude arrested him, while another team nabbed the nayab tehsildar before he could flee from his office.



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