Village circle officer held for taking Rs 1 lakh bribe in Maharashtra


PTI, Jan 9, 2025, 12:42 PM IST

Thane: A village circle officer has been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a person for updating his property records in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Thursday.

The person had approached the accused in connection with a land at Dahigaon in Karjat area of Raigad.

The 40-year-old circle officer of Kadav village in Karjat taluka allegedly demanded Rs 1 lakh from him for carrying out the mutation in his his land records, the ACB said in a release.

The person lodged a complaint with the Raigad ACB unit which laid a trap in the village on Wednesday and caught the accused while accepting the bribe amount, it said.

The accused was later arrested and the police registered a case against him under relevant legal provisions, the ACB said.

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