Action: Two lakh were taken from two shopkeepers for verification of drug stores, caught while counting

The team of the surveillance department carrying the arrested drug inspector.

Drug Inspector Naveen Kumar, posted in the district for about six months, was dramatically arrested by the vigilance team from his rented house near Paswan Chowk in the city. In fact, the drug inspector used to call the shopkeepers to his residence for the amount of bribe in the voice of doing physical verification of the shop and other works. Where on Thursday, Vinod Kumar Singh was called for physical verification of his Ample Trading Pvt Ltd with Rs 75,000 and Rs 2 lakh in the name of one of his relatives, Mukesh Medical.

Whose complaint was made by Vinod Kumar Singh to Patna Vigilance. From where a vigilance officer along with Vinod Kumar Singh was sent as his relative by the team led by DSP Arunoday Pandey to catch the drug inspector red-handed. Where both the people reached with 75 thousand rupees in the name of Ample Trading Pvt Ltd and one lakh 25 thousand rupees in the name of Mukesh Medical. Where as soon as Drug Inspector Naveen Kumar held the money and started counting, the vigilance officer held his hand. By the time the drug inspector could understand something, a team of other officers entered the house and took him into custody and started a search operation in the house.

Surveillance caught: Patna team caught from home on the complaint of shopkeeper Vinod

The interrogation continued till late evening by keeping it in IB
Drug Inspector Naveen Kumar was brought to Rajopatti Parishad by the surveillance team. Here the officers inquired. Based on the trail, raids were conducted at his residence at Sheikhpura in Shastri Nagar police station area of ​​Patna and at his ancestral residence at Deoghar in Jharkhand. From where Vigilance also got 90 thousand cash, 250 grams of gold jewellery, one kg of silver and 3 property papers.

18 officials caught taking bribe since 2008

The Vigilance Department had arrested three in 2008. In which Jail Superintendent Prem Kumar was arrested for taking one lakh bribe from a jail contractor. At the same time District Commercial Tax Officer and Bathnaha BEO Ramashray Yadav were also caught with bribe. In 2009, Prem Shankar Singh, station head of Bela, junior engineer of Runnisaidpur and Panchayat secretary of Bathnaha block Ashok Kumar were caught taking bribe. National Savings Executive Officer Pradeep Kumar in 2014, four in 2015, Bathnaha CO, Nazir Hulas Rai, District Planning Officer Om Prakash and Parihar’s under-inspector Vakil Singh, Mahindwara OP in-charge Umakant Singh in 2016, Pupri BDO Vineet Kumar, worker Satyendra Sahni, Pupri police inspector Nitendra Kumar was also arrested in 2017. In 2019, on November 9, from the residence of former CS Dr. Ravindra Kumar Dumra, on July 25, Parihar BEO Kishori Prasad Rai was caught by surveillance taking 50-50 thousand bribe.