Haryana: Over Rs 11522 cr paid to farmers against purchase of paddy, millet
Out of 49,79,172 MT paddy arrived in mandis, 48,57,405 MT has been procured.
Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested a clerk working in the food and drug administration department for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5000.
Giving this information on Friday, a spokesperson of the Bureau said that the arrested government official identified as Manjeet posted as a clerk in the food and drug administration department in Faridabad. As per the information, the accused had demanded a bribe for issuing a food safety license to the complainant.
The complainant, who did not wish to pay the bribe, informed the vigilance which laid a trap and arrested the accused clerk red-handed accepting Rs 5000 in cash.
A case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered against the accused in Faridabad. Further investigation is underway.
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The Bureau has also arrested Sukhbir, a clerk with the district industrial centre, Ambala while accepting a bribe of Rs 3,000 in lieu of passing a loan under the government scheme.
A spokesperson of Vigilance Bureau informed that complainant Mukesh Kumar had accused the clerk of seeking Rs 10,000 bribe to pass a loan of Rs Five lakh on his shop under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme.
The complainant had approached the Vigilance Bureau which laid a trap and arrested the accused red-handed accepting Rs 3000 in cash in the presence of the duty magistrate.
Meanwhile, the Bureau has secured the conviction of an accused in a corruption case registered in 2015.
The Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Gurugram convicted Puran Khanna, a private person, and sentenced him to four years in jail. The court also imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on the convict.
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