Ahmedabad, May 5: The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested four individuals, including a sub-registrar from the Naroda-6 sub-registrar office in Ahmedabad, in connection with a ₹2.5 lakh bribery case. Officials provided this information on Tuesday.
According to the ACB, the complainant visited the office to register documents for a residential property. During the process, sub-registrar Akash Desai raised several objections. Subsequently, contract employees at the office intervened.
Jay Adivasi and Rahil Sheikh allegedly contacted the complainant, assuring him that the documentation process would be completed. One of the accused later reached out to the complainant via WhatsApp, stating that the work would be completed without the need for conditional documents under Section 73(AA) from the collector’s office.
It is also alleged that an initial amount of ₹35,000 was taken online through a QR code linked to an associate under the pretext of unlocking the file token. Following this, the sub-registrar demanded ₹2.5 lakh to complete the registration process.
Refusing to pay the bribe, the complainant contacted the ACB, which subsequently set up a trap on the same day.
Officials reported that during the operation, Jay Adivasi communicated with the complainant and accepted the bribe inside the sub-registrar office premises, working alongside Narendra alias Sonu Ramkaran Bohra. A total of ₹2.5 lakh was recovered at the scene. All accused were arrested, and the cash was seized.
Earlier in March, a senior officer from the state intelligence bureau was arrested in Gandhinagar for allegedly accepting an ₹80,000 bribe related to police security renewal, following a trap set by the ACB.
Additionally, in January, the ACB arrested three individuals in Gujarat for allegedly accepting a ₹32,000 bribe for Aadhaar-related services at a civic center within the collector’s office premises in the Saraspur area of Ahmedabad.
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