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A 52-year-old cashier of Walajah Municipality successful Ranipet territory was arrested by sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) connected Saturday for demanding and taking a bribe of ₹5,000 from sanitary unit of the civic assemblage to merchandise her wage arrears.
DVAC sources said that the complainant S. Gopalakrishnan, 32, lad of S. Eramma, 57, who works arsenic sanitary unit successful the Municipality, was surviving with his parent successful Walajah municipality for galore years. Eramma was moving with the civic assemblage arsenic imperishable unit and had to get the arrear outgo of her wage and different dues. The Municipality had cleared her dues aft passing indispensable resolutions astatine monthly assembly meetings.
After proceeding astir the clearance by the Municipality, Eramma had been urging K. Devaraj, 52, a cashier and manager in-charge, Walajah Municipality, to merchandise of her arrears. A fewer days ago, cashier Devaraj told her that she has to wage astatine slightest ₹15,000 to get her arrears and different dues. Later, the cashier reduced the magnitude to ₹5,000, demanding a large information of Eramma’s meagre income.
Unwilling to wage the bribe, Eramma told her son, who lodged a ailment with the DVAC. A seven-member squad led by S. Ganesh, Deputy SP, DVAC (Ranipet), laid a trap astatine the Municipal bureau wherever the cashier was caught her red-handed. A lawsuit has been registered against him and further probe is nether way.
