Overview
- Lokayukta officers arrested KAS officer Nagaprashanth and his outsourced driver in Bengaluru after a trap caught the driver taking Rs 15 lakh.
- Investigators say the payment matched a complaint from Ravi Kumar, who alleged a Rs 30 lakh demand for a favourable order in a Rapid Revenue Team revenue case.
- Officials reported that Rs 15 lakh had been handed over earlier through the driver, with the second Rs 15 lakh accepted during the operation.
- A case under Sections 7(a) and 7A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, laws that criminalize taking bribes for official acts, has been registered.
- Nagaprashanth serves as Special Assistant Commissioner (North) and Special Land Acquisition Officer-1 at KIADB, which oversees industrial land deals in Karnataka.