The Panchmahal Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested a person for allegedly making an attempt to bribe the Presiding Officer of the labour court docket (choose) in Godhra by handing out a sealed envelope that was later discovered to include Rs 35,000 in money.
Based mostly on the grievance filed by the labour court docket choose, the ACB arrested Bapu Solanki, who allegedly wished to make sure that his case is listed on the subsequent date of listening to on December 12.
In response to the ACB, Solanki had arrived within the labour court docket of Panchmahal district which runs out of a multi-storeyed constructing on the District Collectorate in Godhra.
A resident of Sardaiya village in Virpur taluka of Mahisagar district, Solanki allegedly reached the court docket and went to the Presiding Officer of the labour court docket and held out a sealed envelope. Police mentioned that the choose refused to just accept the sealed cowl however requested the person to point out its contents within the open court docket. It was discovered to include money amounting to Rs 35,000, the ACB mentioned.
Officers mentioned that the choose instantly summoned the ACB and gave a grievance in writing, resulting in Solanki’s arrest. The accused has allegedly instructed the police that he was “attempting to make sure” that his case was heard on the subsequent listening to on December 12.
Solanki, police mentioned, had been laid off from his job within the Bhadar canal division of the Panam dam mission a couple of years in the past and had filed a case within the labour court docket.
ACB Police Inspector RB Prajapati, in an announcement, mentioned that the method has been initiated to nominate two authorities panch witnesses to confiscate the money for bribe in addition to to amass footage from the CCTV at labour court docket as a part of investigation into the case.
