BHOPAL: A team of Lokayukta police Bhopal have arrested an officer of food and civil supplies department posted in Harda while accepting a bribe of Rs 8000, on Friday.
The applicant who is also an employee of the same department Ashish Kumar Azad filed a complaint to the Lokayukta police, that the assistant grade III officer Jitendra Kumar Choudhary was asking for a bribe of Rs 10,000 to issue the LPC, arrears and salary when he was posted in Jhabua.
After verifying the complaint a trap was laid and as soon as Azad handed the amount to Choudhary- the police arrested him.
Chordhary tried to flee from the spot, but the officials of Lokayukta caught him and completed the due procedures.
