Date:13/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/13/stories/2008081356940500.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Revenue office clerk trapped

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Lokayukta police on Monday trapped a clerk working in revenue office in Hosadurga taluk of Chitradurga district while he was allegedly accepting bribe from a physically challenged person.

Vailesh sought Rs. 1,000 from Ramalingappa for recommending his name for pension. He allegedly took Rs. 400. He was caught while accepting Rs. 600.

Sentenced

The Principal District and Sessions Judge, Belgaum, sentenced a second division clerk and an employee of the Karnataka Government Insurance Department to six months of rigorous imprisonment and ordered them to pay a fine of Rs. 600. V.R. Kunte and H.D. Vanti were found guilty of accepting Rs. 300 from Suresh Mallappa Ravutha, a wireman in PWD’s Electrical Sub-Division, in December 1996.