The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday trapped and arrested a forester and an official from the Forest Range office in Watergam, Baramulla, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 12,500 for processing and issuing a Transit Permit.
“The Anti-Corruption Bureau received a complaint from a resident of Rafiabad District, Baramulla, alleging that he is engaged in the timber business and had recently sold approximately 375 Cft of timber to a customer in Srinagar. To transport the timber from Baramulla to Srinagar, he needed a transit permit from the Range Office in Watergam, Baramulla. Accordingly, he submitted four applications online under the National Transit Pass System (NTPS),” reads a statement.
The statement further indicates that when he visited the Range Office in Watergam, he was issued only one transit permit for the transportation of timber. “However, the concerned forester, Mansoor Ahmad, demanded a bribe of Rs 3,500 for the issued permit and informed him that he would need to pay more for the other three pending permissions.”
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