Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (ANK)
Mangaluru, Oct 3: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) caught an engineer from Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat Integrated Rural Energy Project red handed while accepting a bribe here at zilla panchayat office on Wednesday, October 3.
N Nagesh is the project engineer who was caught while accepting the bribe. Nagesh had demanded Rs 50,000 from an agency owner to avail bio gas subsidy from the government. The agency owner had already given Rs 15,000. The engineer was demanding an additional Rs 35,000 to release subsidy money and was frequently harassing the agency owner over the same.
Nagesh
The agency owner complained about this to the ACB. Engineer Nagesh was caught red handed by the ACB officials.
The operation was carried out by ACB SP Shruthi N S, DySP Sudheer M Hegde, inspector Yogish Kumar and others.