Kokrajhar: Two Forest department personnel were arrested by sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption in Assam’s Kokrajhar district on Friday for allegedly accepting a bribe for settling a case.
The duo was apprehended from an eatery while accepting a part of the bribe, an official release said.
A complaint had been received against Kamini Narzary, a forester of the Kachugaon forest division in Kokrajhar, for demanding Rs 40,000 for regularising a case against the complainant.
The amount was later reduced to Rs 35,000, and the complainant contacted Narzary to make a part of the payment.
In a trap laid by the anti-corruption sleuths, Prabin Brahma, posted as a forest guard at the same office, and Narzary were caught red-handed while counting the money in a Dhaba.
Legal action has been initiated against them, the release said.
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