VACB arrests two officials on charges of accepting bribes

The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) connected Tuesday (September 23) arrested a gross clerk of the Kochi Corporation and an adjunct labour serviceman connected charges of accepting bribes amounting to ₹25,000 and ₹5,000, respectively.

The accused were identified arsenic S.S. Prakash, a gross clerk astatine the Palluruthy zonal bureau of the Kochi Corporation, and K.A. Jayaprakash, who antecedently served arsenic adjunct labour serviceman earlier being transferred to Ernakulam. Prakash was caught portion allegedly accepting bribe for regularising an extended information of a lodge astatine Palluruthy, and Jayaprakash portion reportedly receiving bribe to debar initiating penal enactment against a edifice adjacent the Guruvayur temple.