Beed, Sep 27 (PTI) A senior Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) technician was apprehended on Sunday after allegedly accepting a Rs 13,000 bribe to replace a faulty electricity meter in Beed district, an ACB official said.
The accused, identified as Arun Gite (31), is stationed at the office of the Additional Executive Engineer, MSEDCL, Parli.
According to ACB officials, the complainant, an employee of a private firm, had his residential power supply disconnected and the meter removed by power utility staff on September 25.
When he approached Gite to resolve the issue, the technician allegedly claimed that the existing meter was faulty and demanded Rs 15,000 as a bribe to install a replacement and restore the electricity connection, the ACB said in a release.
The consumer lodged a complaint with the ACB’s Jalna unit on September 27.
The ACB laid a trap near a distribution transformer (DP) in Jirgenagar area of Parli and nabbed Gite when he was accepting the negotiated sum of Rs 13,000 from the complainant.
Simultaneously, a separate team of Beed ACB carried out a search at Gite’s rented residence in the Jalalpur area of Parli.
The process of registering a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act was underway, police said. PTI COR NSK
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