Three including MHADA’s Executive Engineer arrested for demanding and accepting bribe

ACB officials reported that a 40-year-old antheral received a hutment successful Kandivali from his uncle done a acquisition deed. Since the hutment was portion of the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme, the complainant, hoping to payment from the scheme, had submitted an exertion to the Land Management Office nether the Abhay Yojana for spot ownership transfer.

Along with the complainant, 10 different hutment dwellers had besides filed akin applications.

On January 27, the complainant visited MHADA’s Kalanagar bureau successful Bandra to travel up connected his request, accompanied by the different dwellers. During their interaction, Shrestha allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 60,000 from each idiosyncratic to process the ownership transfer. He further instructed them to wage Rs 2,00,000 arsenic an beforehand to Trivedi, the contractor.

Unwilling to comply, the hutment dwellers approached the ACB bureau successful Worli and filed a complaint. Upon investigation, it was revealed that Shrestha had sought a full bribe of Rs 6,60,000 from the complainant and others. He instructed them to springiness Rs 60,000 of that magnitude to Trivedi.

In response, ACB officials acceptable up a trap and arrested Trivedi red-handed portion accepting the Rs 60,000 bribe. Trivedi handed implicit the wealth to Yadav, the rickshaw driver, who was besides arrested. Following this, a lawsuit was registered nether Sections 7, 7(A), and 12 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, and Shrestha was subsequently taken into custody.