Tribune News Service
Panchkula, March 8
A special CBI court in Panchkula today held a senior accounts officer with the Agriculture Ministry, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, guilty of demanding and taking a bribe of Rs55,000 from government counsel for clearing her pending bills in 2016.
Special CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh held the accused guilty of offences punishable under Sections 7 and 13(1) (d) read with 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The quantum of the sentence will be pronounced on March 12.
The CBI had received a complaint from Ranjana Shahi, a senior panel counsel to the Central Government in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, alleging that the accused was demanding a bribe for clearing pending bills.
"The complainant's bills, amounting to approximately Rs25 lakh, on account of legal fee for representing the Ministry of Agriculture before the Punjab and Haryana High Court in various matters were pending for payment in the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (Ministry of Agriculture's office in Faridabad). The accused asked the complainant to pay a bribe of Rs55,000 for clearing these bills," the FIR said.
Gupta, a resident of Faridabad, had asked the advocate to pay the bribe at the Punjab Bhawan in New Delhi. The CBI had laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while taking the money on May 21, 2016.
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