This is an archive article published on December 9, 2022

Surat ACB nabs I&B assistant director, clerk for graft

Both the accused were brought to the Surat ACB office where they were further interrogated.

Surat ACB Police inspector A K Chauhan said: "We have arrested both the accused and have records of the bribe amount demanded and accepted by the them.” (Representational)

By: Express News Service

2 min readSuratDec 9, 2022 09:04 PM IST First published on: Dec 9, 2022 at 09:04 PM IST

Surat Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested the Assistant Director of the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Department and his junior clerk for accepting a bribe of Rs 2.70 lakh from the owner of a local vernacular paper, who demanded renewal of government advertisements.

As per details, the owner of a local vernacular newspaper of Surat applied for the renewal of government display advertisements to be published in his newspaper.

The ACB official said Kavsinghbhai Parmar, Assistant Director of the Information and Broadcasting Department at Nanpura, demanded Rs 5.40 lakh for approval of the renewal application. The newspaper owner agreed to the demand and later contacted the Surat ACB and lodged a complaint in this regard.