Maharashtra: Two PWD assistant engineers held for bribery in Raigad

Two PWD assistant engineers were arrested on Thursday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe a Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau ACB official said reported the PTIHe identified the two as Reshma Naik 31 assistant engineer in the Uran panchayat samiti and Satish Kamble 51 assistant engineer in Raigad zilla parishad as per the PTIThey demanded Rs 30000 from the complainant to expedite a development work in a village Kamble was held while taking Rs 25000 on behalf of Naik Both were arrested under Prevention of Corruption Act the official said according to the PTIMeanwhile in an another incident earlier this montha woman talathi or revenue department official was held by the AntiCorruption Bureau ACB in Maharashtras Raigad district for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6000 to do an official work the ACB said on Thursday reported the PTIAccording to the PTI The woman identified as Shilpa Pawar was arrested on Wednesday said the ACBA local resident had approached the talathi office for getting his name entered in an official document Pawar demanded Rs 6000 from him for making the entry in government record it said as per the PTIHe filed a complaint with the ACBs Raigad unit which laid a trap and caught the revenue department official while accepting the bribe said the anticorruption agencyA case was registered against her under the Prevention of Corruption ActEarlier the ACB had acted on the orders of a court and registered a case against a retired police officer and two of his subordinates in connection with a bribe of Rs 225 lakh an official said on Wednesday the news agency reportedRetired ACP assistant commissioner of police Sudhir Kalekar earlier posted as senior inspector of Borivali police station has been booked in the case along with his juniors inspector Arvind Ghag and subinspector Swapnali Mande the PTI reportedMande had allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 225 lakh on behalf of both the cops to help a woman get her jewellery back from her estranged husband and inlaws and punish them in a domestic violence case the official saidACB Mumbai on Tuesday registered the case against Kalekar Ghag and Mande under the Prevention of Corruption Act on the courts directionA 32yearold female lawyer had filed a complaint of domestic violence against her husband and inlaws in June 2021 Accordingly an FIR was registered at Borivali police station he said as per the PTIDuring the probe the complainant wrote to the police seeking to get back her jewellery worth Rs 27 lakh from her inlaws the official saidwith PTI inputs