Beed, Oct 18 The Anti-Corruption Bureau has caught a 70-year-old stamp paper vendor while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 3,500 from a person to supply a back-dated bond paper in Maharashtra’s Beed district, the ACB said on Sunday.
After being detained on Saturday, the accused complained of chest pain and was hospitalised, they said.
The accused, a resident of Georai, had allegedly demanded Rs 3,500 from a person for providing a back-dated Rs 500 stamp paper.
The person approached the ACB, which laid a trap on Saturday afternoon at the Georai tehsil office complex and caught the accused red-handed while accepting the money, the anti-graft agency said.
As soon as the accused was detained, he complained about chest pain. The accused has already been suffering from hypertension and diabetes. He is undergoing treatment in a government hospital, the ACB added.
(PTI News)
