ACB traps gardner for demanding, accepting bribe of Rs 2000

Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday claimed to have trapped a Gardner of Floriculture department while demanding and accepting bribe in summer capital Srinagar.

Quoting an official KDC reported that on receipt of the complaint, an FIR was registered, under section 7 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 in Police Station ACB central Kashmir and investigation was taken up.

Accordingly a trap team was constituted. The trap team laid a successful trap and caught a Gardner of floriculture department at Badamwari while accepting a bribe of rupees 2,000 on the spot in presence of independent witnesses, he said.

The Gardner was taken to a police station in Srinagar and further investigation into the matter is going on.