KSEB official arrested on charge of accepting bribe

The Ernakulam portion of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau connected Wednesday arrested an adjunct technologist of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹90,000 from a builder. The arrested is Pradeepan N., a nonmigratory of Kaloor, who works astatine the KSEB’s Thevara part office.

He was caught red-handed portion accepting the magnitude from the complainant adjacent a autobus halt astatine Thevera astir 6 p.m. “The complainant approached the VACB aft the authoritative sought a bribe of ₹1.5 lakh to person a impermanent energy transportation to imperishable astatine a recently constructed gathering successful Panampilly Nagar. He volition beryllium produced earlier tribunal connected Thursday,” C.M. Varghese, DySP, VACB, Ernakulam unit, said.