PURULIA: Bandwan
BDO
Sudipto Biswas was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly extorting Rs 91,000 from a contractor of the state’s
Mission Nirmal Bangla
project. Officers of the state’s
anti-corruption wing
arrested Biswas on a complaint from contractor Satyenjoy Mondal.
Mondal, who was awarded a contract to build 35 toilets in Bandwan block, had executed the project and sought Rs 6.5 lakh from the BDO. Biswas told Mondal that he would hand him a cheque for the sum provided the contractor paid him Rs 91,000 in cash. Mondal tipped off the anti-corruption wing and a trap was laid for Biswas.
As Mondal left the BDO’s office on Tuesday after paying him, waiting anti-corruption sleuths raided the Biswas’s office and not only recovered the Rs 91,000 that Mondal had paid him, but a further Rs 2.5 lakh in cash.
The BDO, sources said, was unable to give a satisfactory explanation for holding so much cash. Arrested and brought to Kolkata, Biswas was produced in court on Wednesday.
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