Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh), May 17 (PTI) Two officials of the Town and Country Planning department posted in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district were arrested on Friday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau caught assistant director (survey) Balkrishna Chauhan and assistant cartographer Nilesh Kumar Dhruv red-handed while taking money for issuing a no-objection certificate, a release said.
As per the complainant, a resident of Ambikapur, his relative had submitted an application to the sub divisional officer (revenue) seeking permission for the use of agricultural land located in Wadrafnagar for industrial purposes.
Chauhan and Dhruv allegedly demanded bribe from him for an NOC of the Town and Country Planning department.
After he approached the ACB, a trap was laid and the two officers were arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Further investigation was underway.
The Directorate of Town and Country Planning in Raipur suspended the two officials following the arrest, an official said here. PTI TKP KRK
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