Sunday, June 2, 2019

DEMANDED MONEY FOR REMOVING POST

TNEB engineer held for taking ₹30,000 bribe


TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:02.06.2019

Directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DV&AC) officials on Friday evening caught a TNEB assistant executive engineer accepting ₹30,000 as bribe from a man at his Anna Nagar office.

The victim, Karuppiah, 51, of Anna Nagar had earlier approached assistant executive engineer Manimaran, seeking to remove an electric post from his 300 sq ft plot. To his shock, Manimaran demanded ₹50,000.

With no other option left, Karuppiah agreed to pay the money and gave him ₹20,000 as advance.

However, since no action

was taken, Karuppiah met Manimaran again, Manimaran told him that the post would be removed only after paying the pending amount of ₹30,000.

Karuppiah then approached DV&AC officials and lodged a complaint. As advised by the officials, Karuppiah paid ₹30,000 to Manimaran at his office on Friday evening.

Immediately, a 10-member team led by Lavakumar, superintendent of police, which was waiting outside, barged into the office and arrested Manimaran.

Since there were other staff members at the office when the arrest took place, tension prevailed in the area. Manimaran was taken for further investigation.

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