CURATED BY – PIYUSH AGRWAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Khargone, Lokayukta Indore caught forest guard Ram Sitole of Kanjhar beat of Bhikangaon forest range red handed taking bribe of 10 thousand. According to Lokayukta, forest guard Sitole had demanded bribe of 50 thousand rupees from complainant Siddharth Singh Gaur for not taking action on JCB machine. Since the complainant was not able to give 50000, it was agreed to give 20000. On Friday, forest guard was caught tricolour handed while taking 10000 cash and he has been arrested
Lokayukta DSP Indore Dinesh Patel says that complainant Siddharth had complained that his JCB was running on Dinesh's field to level the field. Here forest guard Ramlal Sitole came and said that this is forest land. If you want to run JCB then you will have to pay bribe of 20000. Work was stopped and bribe was demanded. We received the complaint and complaint was found to be correct. Today a forest guard was caught red handed while accepting a bribe of 10000. Action has been taken under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

50 thousand was demanded, 20 was agreed upon-

Complainant Siddharth says that my JCB was running in the farmer's field for many days. Ram Sitole arrived while the JCB was running and stopped the machine and demanded 50000. The final amount was fixed at 20000, out of which I have already paid 10000 and 10000 today. I was being mentally harassed, money was being demanded by calling me repeatedly. When I got very upset, I went to the Lokayukta and complained.