Express news service, Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Mumbai:
The Mumbai unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught the personal assistant (PA), assistant and clerk of the Minister for School Education red-handed for allegedly accepting bribe. The officials were arrested from Mantralaya after a trap was laid by the ACB.
According to ACB officers, PA Deepak Karande, clerk Pravin Bodke and assistant Prashant Andhare were arrested after they allegedly sought bribe from a complainant. “The complainant is the secretary of an educational institution. He had sent a proposal to start English medium in the institution for Class VIII to XII. The file was pending here, so the complainant went to meet Andhare,” said an ACB officer.
“Andhare told the complainant he will forward the file to higher authorities if he was given Rs 50,000. When the complainant said he couldn’t shell out such a large sum, Andhare told him to give Rs 30,000, failing which he would not send the file for approval,” said the officer.
Seeing that Andhare will not budge, the complainant paid him Rs 15,000. Andhare then told him that he will forward the file only when the complainant pays up the remaining amount. He also told him to speak to the minister’s PA for further work.
“The complainant then went to the PA, who asked him for Rs 90,000. Tired of paying bribes, he filed a written complaint against the assistant and the PA. A trap was then laid for them,” the officer said.
A team of ACB officials waited outside and as the two accused took bribe and were arrested. “They confessed that they asked for a bribe. The PA was caught while he was taking part payment of Rs 50,000. We also arrested the clerk Bodke who also asked the complainant for Rs 15,000. Further investigations are on,” said the officer.
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Anti corruption can only trap or catch officers in service not the Hon'ble who are openly indulging in corrupt illegal activities either in their office or official residences.All the politicians who have become millionaires are not the law makers. Common man or a honest person has no place to live with dignity and security in India, whatever one may think or say on this.
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Its regretful to note that anti corruption acts only on complaints. Why not see themselves by vigilance and locate how corruption works. Show me a Minister in India who would let alone a file to move on merits without trying to accept monetary consideration. The entire funds for development of adivasis were misused. In the name of Rashtrawadi AIR India has been ruined by favouritism to Private Air Lines. Un employment is deliberately created by politicians so that men work for them with free time. In past 25 years most of the elected representative of people are millionaires. A Hon'ble Governor owns a college which cahrges 90 lakhs as donation for an Medical seat in Maharashtra and his family member is a Home minister. There is Maharashtra capitation Fee Act, who will check this.A beautiful, powerful nation with all its resourses and riches have been plundered and described secular to allow us to fight amongst ourselves and always live in fear. This is what Mahatma Gandhi did for us. We had to forget our ancient Knowledge for foreign religions, Gods and their agents who terrorise us and intimidate us that we dont practcise any of our culture.If mahatma Gandhi is our father of Nation then Veer Damodar Savarkar is our Grand Father of our Nation who truly suffered by his sacrifices for our future.
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