ACB nab ZP Education Dept senior clerk for accepting Rs 1000 bribe

Sangli, Maharashtra, Oct 8 (UNI) Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials today arrested a senior clerk of the Sangli Zilla Parishad Higher Education department for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1,000 here.

The clerk has been identified as Dattatraya Maruti Bubhne, ACB sources said.

A retirad professor Suryabhan Sambhaji Chavan had applied for pension, for which he met Bubhne and requested to clear his proposal early. However, Bubhne demanded a bribe of Rs 1,500 to clear his pension paper and finally, agreed for Rs 1,000, the sources said.

Then, Mr Chavan lodged a complaint with the ACB. A team, led by DySP H K Jagdale, laid a trap and nabed Bubhne while allegedly accepting the bribe amount in his office, sources added.

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