THANE JULY 12, 2014
THREE GOVT OFFICERS NABBED IN DIFFERENT INCIDENTS
Three government officials have been nabbed for graft by the Thane unit of the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) in separate incidents at Kalwa, Kalyan and Dombivli.
In the first incident, Vilas Dhawas, an assistant registrar of Kalwa allegedly extorted money from citizens for delivering his job. He, however, ran out of luck when a complainant, who sought lease and license of his apartment, and was asked for a bribe of Rs 500 registered a complaint with the ACB, said a source.
The sleuths on Friday afternoon caught Dhawas red-handed.
In the second case, a Maharashtra secretariat clerk from Kalyan and two other agents were caught taking bribe of Rs 40,000 from a complainant. Kishor Shinde had demanded money from a ration shop owner to dispose off a complaint against him and a few other shopkeepers in Kalyan. The graft amount was later brought down to Rs 30,000. After a complaint was lodged against Shinde, a trap was laid in a hotel at Kalyan and he was caught taking the bribe, along with the two agents who have been identified as Sunil Bansode and Vinod Akhade.
In the third incident, a constable attached to the Manpada police station at Dombivli was arrested for demanding a bribe of Rs 5,000.
It is believed that Ganesh Marathe had sought the money for not filing a case against the complainant's uncle. The constable was supposed to be given money in installments and he was already paid Rs 2000.
Marathe had asked the complainant to hand over the money to a pan stall owner on Saturday at 10am.
Cases have been registered at Kalwa, Kalyan and Manpada police stations under sections of the Prevention of Anti Corruption Act, 1988.