Ranchi, Aug 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a senior accounts officer and two assistant accounts officers of the Regional Pay & Accounts Office, CISF, Ranchi, for demanding and taking a bribe of over Rs 48,000 from a colleague, an official said on Thursday.
The trio had demanded the bribe from a constable for releasing payment against various allowance bills of his unit’s colleagues, the official said.
The CBI statement identified the arrested as Senior Accounts Officer Santosh Kumar Mahto and assistant accounts officers Sunil Kumar and Sujit Kumar Singh.
The accused will be produced before the competent court on Friday, it said.
The CBI registered the instant case on Wednesday against the three accused public servants.
It was alleged that the accused officials demanded a bribe from the complainant, Head Constable, CISF, NTPC, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, to process and pay various bills, including Travelling Allowance (TA) bills and Children Education Allowance bills, for different officials in his unit.
The CBI laid a trap on Thursday at the Regional Pay & Accounts Office, CISF, MHA, Ranchi, the CBI said.
During the trap proceedings, all three accused officials were caught red-handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 48,400 from the complainant. The CBI recovered Rs 48,400 as bribe money during the trap proceedings.
The CBI is conducting searches at five places related to the accused persons in Ranchi and Dhanbad. During the searches, the CBI seized incriminating documents and cash.
In a separate case, the CBI arrested an absconding former postal official in Odisha linked to a Rs 13.98 lakh fraud involving money saved by depositors in a post office, an official said.
Shabda Swain, the then Branch Post Main of Bonda, Odisha, was taken into custody in Bargarh for alleged involvement in the Post Office Savings Fraud Case dating back to 2015, the CBI said in a statement.
During her posting as Branch Post Master of Bonda Post Office from 2008 to 2014, the accused misappropriated Rs 13.98 lakh collected from depositors by not accounting for the deposits in official records and by making false entries in passbooks.
The accused has been absconding since the framing of charges on December 31, 2015, in the CBI, ACB, Bhubaneswar case No. RC 17(A)/ 2014-BBS. The CBI issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against her in 2022.
Source: IANS
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