{"id":192109,"date":"2022-06-02T00:36:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=192109"},"modified":"2022-06-02T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T19:06:48","slug":"junior-engineer-arrested-for-accepting-bribe-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/02\/junior-engineer-arrested-for-accepting-bribe-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior engineer arrested for accepting bribe in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Jun1 (PTI) A junior engineer in Assam&#8217;s Director of Municipal Administration office here was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly taking a bribe from a contractor, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A complaint was received at the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption that the engineer, Debashis Das, had demanded Rs 50,000 as a bribe from the complainant for processing a file for sanctioning his work bill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accordingly, a trap was laid near the office of the Director of Municipal Administration on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Das was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 from the complainant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A search was also conducted at the junior engineer&#8217;s residence here and cash of Rs 3 lakh along with documents was seized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been registered against Das under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and necessary legal actions are being initiated, a release issued by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Jun1 (PTI) A junior engineer in Assam&#8217;s Director of Municipal Administration office here was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly taking a bribe from a contractor, police said. A complaint was received at the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption that the engineer, Debashis Das, had demanded Rs 50,000 as a bribe from the complainant for [&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-192109","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\/192109","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=192109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}