ACB trap leads to premature retirement of R&B Engineer

SRINAGAR, July 23 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has achieved a significant outcome in its sustained action against corruption, with departmental proceedings against an engineer of the Roads & Buildings Department-arising from a trap case-culminating in the imposition of the major penalty of premature retirement on proportionate pension.

According to details, the then Assistant Executive Engineer, R&B Special Sub-Division, Uri, was caught red-handed by the ACB while demanding and accepting a bribe from a contractor, pursuant to which FIR No. 29/2022 was registered at Police Station ACB Baramulla. Following his arrest in the trap case on 17.11.2022, the officer was placed under suspension by the Public Works (R&B) Department with effec...