MP: Woman Excise Officer Held While Accepting ₹1.20 Lakh Bribe In Umaria

MP: Woman Excise Officer Held While Accepting ₹1.20 Lakh Bribe In Umaria

The official said the complainant had approached the SPE claiming Umaria district excise officer Rini Gupta had been threatening him with the fake case.

PTIUpdated: Tuesday, August 29, 2023, 08:22 PM IST
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Rewa (Madhya Pradesh): A woman officer of the Madhya Pradesh excise department was nabbed on Tuesday by Lokayukta's Special Police Establishment (SPE) when she was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1.20 lakh for not implicating a man in a false case of liquor seizure in Umaria district, an official said.

The official said the complainant had approached the SPE claiming Umaria district excise officer Rini Gupta had been threatening him with the fake case.

Gupta was nabbed while accepting a bribe of Rs 1.20 lakh from the complainant in her office at Umaria, a release quoted Lokayukta's Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Rewa, Praveen Singh Parihar as saying.

A case has been registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and further legal steps are being taken, Parihar said.

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