Kalaburagi: An assistant public prosecutor (APP) attached to the 5th JMFC Court in Kalaburagi was caught in a Lokayukta trap on Friday while allegedly accepting a bribe near the court complex. He was arrested for demanding cash and expensive gifts in return for filing a compromise petition in court.The accused has been identified as Santosh…
Kalaburagi: A Kalaburagi court on Thursday sentenced a tahsildar and her associate to four years in prison and imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 each after they were caught in a Lokayukta trap while accepting a bribe.Shashikala Padagatti, who served as the tahsildar of Afzalpur in 2017, and Shivananda Jamakhandi, who accepted the bribe money…
Bengaluru: A district leprosy officer (DLO) attached to the department of health and family welfare was caught by Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a 25-year-old doctor for approving a Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) licence.Unani doctor Muffassir Ahmed Muzammil approached Lokayukta police against DLO Dr Bhujabali D Yalagudri, 54, accusing…
Bengaluru: A district leprosy officer (DLO) attached to the department of health and family welfare was caught by Lokayukta police while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a 25-year-old doctor for approving a Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) licence.Unani doctor Muffassir Ahmed Muzammil approached Lokayukta police against DLO Dr Bhujabali D Yalagudri, 54, accusing…
Bribe cash rupees notes wad coins Bengaluru: Karnataka Lokayukta Thursday caught an accountant from the accountant general (AG) office while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 to process the release of court-deposited funds.The accused official is Adarsha Kumar Singh, who works in the AG office on Park House Road near Ambedkar Veedhi.Lokayukta said the…
Bengaluru: A special court for corruption cases registered and investigated by Lokayukta in Tumakuru held a former assistant executive engineer with Bescom-Kunigal and an electrical contractor guilty of accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000 to install a transformer in 2014 and sentenced them to five years’ simple imprisonment with fine.The convicted are then AEE PN…
Ballari: An FDA at the Siruguppa Tahsildar’s office and her son were arrested by Ballari Lokayukta police on Wednesday for allegedly accepting a Rs 1.1 lakh bribe to convert land records from ‘Inam’ to ‘Patta’.The accused, Suvarna and Deepak, were caught in a trap after complainant Govind of Bairapur village alleged that the FDA demanded…
Bengaluru: Lokayukta police trapped and arrested a public prosecutor (PP) after she accepted a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man in her office at the City Civil and Sessions Court Monday afternoon.The accused PP is Savitha Naveen Patil, 55, serving in CCH-54 court.According to Lokayukta officials, a 40-year-old Banashankari resident approached them alleging the…
Lokayukta police Tuesday trapped a Bescom assistant executive engineer while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 to sanction additional power to a temporary meter.The accused AEE is Manojkumar B, 53, attached to Bescom, south division. His associate, Kantharaju, an electrical contractor, was also arrested. A press note from Lokayukta said Manojkumar had…
