A junior Employment Officer at Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Employment Exchange was caught red-handed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths at Gajuwaka on Tuesday.
Transfer of R card
T. Jayaprakash, an unemployed youth, approached the accused Employment Officer K. Suresh Kumar to transfer the ‘R’ card of his father T. Ramaiah in his name and the accused had demanded Rs.1.5 lakh to do the favour, according to ACB DSP K. Ramakrishna Prasad.
R Cards were given to the displaced families, whose lands were acquired for the development of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
As he was not in a position to pay the huge bribe, Jayaprakash approached the ACB officials.
The ACB sleuths laid a trap and caught the accused while he was accepting the bribe amount of Rs.1.5 lakh. Suresh Kumar was taken into custody and produced in the ACB court on Wednesday.
His house and other places are also being searched.