A 37-year-old onshore surveyor attached to Walajah Panchayat Union successful Ranipet was arrested by sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) connected Saturday for demanding and taking a bribe of ₹37,000 from a erstwhile service unit to facilitate a sanction alteration successful onshore patta document.
DVAC sources said that the complainant A.K. Karthikeyan, 53, a erstwhile service personnel, and his woman K. Poongodi were surviving successful Ammoor colony adjacent Walajah municipality successful the territory for galore years.
In March, Karthikeyan and his woman inherited an acre of farmland and an autarkic location successful the colony from his begetter in-law. As his begetter in-law died a fewer weeks aboriginal owed to aged age, Karthikeyan decided to alteration the sanction of the spot proprietor successful the onshore papers to his name. Subsequently, Karthikeyan applied online for a sanction alteration connected August 18. Since then, helium had been visiting the Walajah panchayat national bureau for the sanction alteration galore times.
In September, helium was informed by the panchayat national surveyor, K. Chitra, the accused, that helium should wage ₹37,000 to get the occupation done. Chitra has been moving successful the national bureau since August. Initially, she demanded ₹50,000 for patta sanction change. Later, she reduced the magnitude aft coming to cognize astir Karthikeyan’s meagre pension.
Unwilling to wage the bribe, Karthikeyan lodged a ailment with the DVAC. A seven-member squad led by S. Ganesh, Deputy SP, DVAC (Arakkonam), laid a trap astatine the farmland wherever Chitra came to survey the onshore and caught her red-handed. A lawsuit has been registered and a probe is nether way.
