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Customs inspector in the clutches of ACB Wednesday, November 7, 2001

News Source : Times News Network
AHMEDABAD: The Anti-Corruption Bureau booked a case of bribery and disproportionate assets against a Customs inspector posted at Jamnagar for taking a bribe of Rs 80,000 from a trader Kantilal Bechardas Patel of the Ishwarlal Bechardas company.

Kantilal approached the ACB in Rajkot stating that the Customs inspector Rameshwarprasad Gupta had demanded Rs 2 lakh to clear his consignment from the checkpost.

Over a month back, Patel had sent a consignment through Arvind Kantilal angadia service to Rajkot from Ahmedabad which was intercepted at the Morbi octroi checkpost. Customs officials, including Gupta, also checked this vehicle and 15 days later, Gupta contacted Patel and told him that if he wanted to avoid checking of his goods he would have to pay Rs 2 lakh.

He said Patel would have to pay him Rs 80,000 at his home. Patel alerted the ACB who laid the trap at Gupta's house at Jamnagar and caught him in the act. Then ACB men searched Gupta's house and found Rs 2 lakh in cash besides fixed deposits and Kisan Vikas Patra.

News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]

 

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