Revenue clerk held for taking bribe

Patna: The vigilance sleuths on Tuesday nabbed a revenue clerk Umesh Prasad for taking a bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person at his office in Jogapatti circle in Bihar`s Bagaha police district, an official said.

Acting on the complaint of one Nasrullah Ansari, the vigilance sleuths laid a trap and arrested Prasad when he was receiving the graft, the Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Vigilance, P K Thakur said.

The accused revenue officer had demanded bribe for mutation of landed property of the complainant, he said.
PTI