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Hooghly Zilla Parishad Engineer Caught Red-Handed by ACB While Taking Bribe
- •A Sub-Assistant Engineer of Hooghly Zilla Parishad was caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Branch while accepting a bribe.
- •The accused engineer demanded a bribe of 20,000 rupees from a contractor in Polba for releasing pending funds.
- •Acting on a complaint, ACB officials set a trap using chemically treated currency notes and arrested the engineer.
- •In a separate incident earlier, two civic volunteers were also caught taking bribes for passport verification in Ranaghat.
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Suman Das was arrested red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Branch of West Bengal Police after demanding a bribe from a contractor named Muktram Ghosh in Polba. The engineer allegedly demanded money when the contractor asked for his pending payment of 206,000 rupees.
Following a complaint, the contractor used chemically treated currency notes as instructed by the ACB. As soon as the engineer took 20,000 rupees in his hand, officials caught him red-handed, and his hands turned purple when washed in water.
Two civic volunteers named Bandhan Debnath and Raju Kirtania, working at Haringhata police station under the Ranaghat district, were caught red-handed taking a 10,000 rupee bribe for passport verification. They were apprehended by ACB officials in the DIB office premises of Haringhata.
