Jharkhand News: Ranchi ACB nabs executive engineer taking bribe

THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK

Ranchi, June 5: In a major crackdown on corruption, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) team from Ranchi arrested an Executive Engineer of the Rural Development Department, Sanoth Soren, on Thursday while he was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of ₹60,000.

According to the ACB, the engineer was demanding a bribe in exchange for releasing a pending bill.

Following a formal complaint filed with the bureau, the ACB conducted a preliminary verification, which confirmed the demand for bribe.

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Acting on this, officials laid a trap and arrested the engineer from his office while he was taking the money.

Sources said that the complainant, a contractor working with the Rural Development Department, had several outstanding bills.

The engineer had allegedly been persistently demanding a bribe to clear the payments.

After verifying the complaint and confirming its authenticity, the ACB team carried out the arrest operation successfully.