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This is an archive article published on December 14, 1997

Phule official in ACB net

AURANGABAD, Dec 13: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught red-handed the Regional Manager of Mahatma Phule Development Corpor...

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AURANGABAD, Dec 13: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught red-handed the Regional Manager of Mahatma Phule Development Corporation for the backward classes, while he was accepting a graft of Rs 1,000 for recommending a loan proposal.

ACB officials cast the net following a complaint lodged by one Bhikaji Katkar of Bhokarden, Jalna, who had sought the corporation’s endorsement on his application for a loan to buy a Taxi Jeep.

In spite of having submitted all the required documents, Katkar’s file had been pending with the corporation for almost two years.

When Bhikaji sought a meeting with Regional Manager R D Jadhav to get a final word on his loan application, he was assured that his file would be okayed if he paid the official Rs 5,000 with an advance payment of Rs 1,000. Seeing his 22-month-long wait go in vain, Bhikaji contacted ACB officials at Jalna who came down to Aurangabad and laid the trap. It took the officials eight days of continuous watch on the movements and activities of Jadhav and his assistant B J Chavan, to arrest them, ACB Inspector Sheshrav Suryavanshi told The Indian Express.

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