Jammu, June 13 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau on Friday trapped and arrested a revenue official in a bribery case in Poonch district.

The official spokesman here said that the ACB received a complaint where it was alleged that the complainant was in need of a revenue record, i.e., attested copies of the Khasra Girdwari of his land situated in Village Dhara, for which he had already applied via online mode on April 26, 2025, but Patwari Mohammad Jameel was demanding a bribe for providing the attested copies of the same.

Since the complainant didn’t want to pay a bribe, he approached the Anti-Corruption Bureau to take legal action against the accused public servants under the law, he said.

The spokesman added that on receipt of the complaint, a discreet verification was conducted, which confirmed the demand for a bribe by the public servant, and accordingly, a case was registered in Police Station ACB Rajouri, and an investigation was taken up.

During the course of the investigation, a trap team was constituted, and the team laid a successful trap, and the accused public servant was caught red-handed while demanding and accepting a bribe amount of Rs 5,000 from the complainant in the presence of independent witnesses.

The accused person was arrested on the spot by the ACB team after following due process of law, and subsequently, a search was also conducted in the residential house of the accused at Poonch.

Further investigation of the instant case is going on, said the spokesman.

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