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Gujarat forest guard, agent trapped for Rs 100 bribe at checkpost
The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has trapped a forest guard and a private agent for demanding and accepting a Rs 100 bribe at the Surajbari checkpost in Bhachau. During the trap, agent Jamansa Osaman Sayyad took the money from a decoy on the direct instructions of forest guard Hareshbhai Hemrajbhai Chaudhari, who was posted in the Bhachau normal range.
The ACB laid the trap after receiving a complaint. Both accused were caught red-handed and will be produced in court. The guard's role in directing the agent to collect the bribe is the focus of the investigation.
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The case is the latest in a string of small-value bribe traps that the Gujarat ACB runs along the state's highway checkposts. Surajbari, on the Bhachau-Maliya highway, is one of several points where forest and police personnel routinely stop cargo vehicles. Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, makes demanding or accepting a bribe a non-bailable offence punishable by a minimum three-year sentence. The ACB will now file a chargesheet within the statutory 60-day limit. If convicted, the guard faces automatic suspension under Gujarat's service rules. The trap's low amount often signals a more serious underlying demand that the decoy refused.
Source: ndtv.com
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