Handwara, Oct. 12 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Jammu and Kashmir, has caught a Senior Assistant posted at the Sub-Division Agriculture Office in Handwara red-handed while allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 40,000 for clearing a pending subsidy bill. The accused has been identified as Irshad Ahmad Peer, who was apprehended during a trap operation conducted by the ACB Police Station Baramulla.
According to the ACB, a written complaint was received at Police Station Baramulla alleging that the accused official had demanded Rs 40,000 from the complainant in exchange for releasing a subsidy bill relating to a tractor purchased by the complainant's brother under the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme (HADP).
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