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The Coimbatore portion of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-corruption (DVAC) connected Monday arrested a panchayat caput and a machine relation for demanding and accepting ₹19,340 arsenic bribe from a antheral for the regularisation of his unapproved location plots.
K. Rangasamy, 48, caput of Masagoundenchettipalayam successful Annur block, and M. Boopathi, 28, machine relation (temporary) astatine the section body, were arrested based connected a ailment lodged by Rajan Prabhakaran of Mookanur adjacent Annur.
According to the DVAC, the complainant had approached the panchayat with an exertion to regularise 5 unapproved location plots. In summation to the requisite interest paid by the complainant done the bank, Rangasamy demanded ₹15,000 arsenic bribe from him and collected it done a pistillate staffer successful September.
Though the complainant was told that the process was implicit and the approvals were pending with the Block Development Officer, the panchayat caput further demanded ₹8,500 arsenic bribe and ₹16,500 arsenic developmental charges for the regularisation of the plots. Unwilling to wage the bribe, the complainant approached the DVAC, which acceptable a trap for the serviceman connected Monday.
The complainant visited the panchayat bureau connected Monday wherever Rangasamy instructed him to springiness the wealth to Boopathy. A DVAC squad headed by Additional Superintendent of Police C. Rajesh and Inspectors G. Arumugam and J. Prabudass caught Boopathy successful the act. The officers retrieved the money, which Boopathy collected connected the instructions of Rangasamy.
DVAC sleuths recovered that the panchayat caput collected ₹10,840 successful excess of the existent developmental charges of ₹5,660. Rangasamy collected a full of 19,340 arsenic bribe connected Monday alone. The full bribe collected by him from the complainant stood astatine ₹34,340. Rangasamy and Boopathy were arrested and sent for judicial remand.
