Overview
- State Anti-Corruption Bureau teams carried out separate undercover trap operations that led to several arrests of public servants in mid-June, with multiple cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
- Raigad ACB arrested assistant revenue officer Nitin Sadashiv Pawar and peon Sachin Ramakant Patil after a trap in a land-mutation matter that uncovered a negotiated demand reduced from Rs 40,000 to Rs 30,000.
- Nashik ACB trapped Sudhir Govind Wagh, a chief clerk at the Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies office in Yeola, who was caught accepting Rs 5,000 after prior negotiations over an additional payment for renewing a money-lending licence.
- Kota ACB arrested a police constable known as Hariom for allegedly taking Rs 7,000 to settle a purported false case, and he was produced before court and remanded to judicial custody.
- Telangana ACB searches in a disproportionate-assets case against survey deputy director S Narahari Rao recovered about Rs 1.50 crore from a bank locker and detected assets valued at roughly Rs 13.05 crore, with further verification and prosecutions continuing.