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The accused were presented before a court which remanded them in police custody for seven days, the agency said.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau of J&K Saturday said it has arrested a tehsildar for allegedly demanding Rs 1 lakh as bribe from a Handwara resident for permission to fell walnut trees.
An ACB statement said the complainant accused Ghulam Rasool Bhat, tehsildar, Kralgund, of taking Rs 50,000 as advance and still not issuing the permission for cutting the trees. The complainant said he told the revenue official that he could not afford to pay the money, but the tehsildar insisted on full payment.
Pointing out that a discreet inquiry was initiated into the matter, the statement said after verification of facts, a case was registered against the tehsildar and his tout Rafi Ahmad Lone.
An ACB team caught two men and during a search of the tehsildar’s premises, recovered Rs 50,000 allegedly paid by the complainant, besides another bundle of Rs 79,000.
The accused were presented before a court which remanded them in police custody for seven days, the agency said.
Cop nabbed
In another case, the ACB arrested a police head constable, Roshan Din, who was on the run after being spotted taking the bribe.
Din had demanded Rs 15,000 from the complainant for deleting his name from a list of accused persons in an FIR despite the fact that the former had provided CCTV footage and attendance at the factory on the date of occurrence to prove his innocence, said the agency.
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However, while accepting the bribe from the complainant, Din sensed the presence of ACB officials on the spot and fled, the agency said, adding he threw the money in the bushes on the national highway near Palli. The money was recovered by independent witnesses and seized by officials, the agency said.
Din was posted at Kathua police station, said the ACB.
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