CURATED BY – SUNIL YADAV | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Katni, Jabalpur Lokayukta team has arrested JE and other private employee red handed while taking bribe of Rs. 25,000 from MPEB office in Khitauli, Barhi town of Katni district.
Lokayukta team Deputy Superintendent of Police Surekha Parmar said that applicant Balram Das Patel and Navneet are residents of Barhi. Accused DE Rajiv Chaturvedi and SE Chanchal Gupta, Ravi Kumar Burman posted in MPEB office in Khitauli have been arrested red handed today while taking bribe of Rs. 25,000. The applicant Balram Das Patel is a B class contractor in MPEB Katni. In connection with preparing the estimate and demand note for installing a 63 KVA transformer for the rice mill of consumer Rajesh Patel of village Loharawa, district Katni, he met the accused DE Rajeev Chaturvedi, who demanded a bribe of Rs. 80,000 for this work. When the applicant met MPEB Khatauli AE Chanchal Gupta, he demanded Rs. 40,000 for this work. On which today when the applicant gave the amount of Rs. 25,000 to the accused Chanchal Gupta, the Lokayukta police present there caught him red-handed.