{"id":177569,"date":"2021-11-24T00:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=177569"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:06:37","slug":"assam-officer-caught-taking-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/24\/assam-officer-caught-taking-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam officer caught taking bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Nov 23 (PTI) An Assam government officer was arrested here on Tuesday while allegedly accepting a bribe, an official statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The accused, a deputy director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department, had allegedly sought a bribe from a person to issue transit permit for bringing three cows to his farm in Kokrajhar from Alipurduar in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The person approached the Kokrajhar Police and accordingly, a joint trap team was constituted along with the vigilance cell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A trap was laid and the accused, who is posted in Guwahati, was apprehended red-handed while allegedly accepting the bribe of Rs 20,000, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been registered in the Kokrajhar police station under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Nov 23 (PTI) An Assam government officer was arrested here on Tuesday while allegedly accepting a bribe, an official statement said. The accused, a deputy director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department, had allegedly sought a bribe from a person to issue transit permit for bringing three cows to his farm in Kokrajhar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}