Madhya Pradesh / Gwalior: ‘Brother, I will die, I am touching your feet, leave me…’ The bribe engineer caught red handed created drama
Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Police on Tuesday arrested Public Works Department (PWD) Executive Engineer (EE) PK Gupta in Gwalior for taking a bribe of Rs 15,000. The video of the accused caught by the Lokayukta team after taking bribe has surfaced. In this video, the executive engineer is seen pleading badly. To avoid being arrested, the accused even touched the feet of the Lokyukta police and pretended to have high blood pressure and a heart attack. But the Lokayukta team did not listen and got the engineer’s bribery hands washed in water. The accused was arrested as soon as the color of the water changed.
Contractor Mahendra Singh had done electrical fitting work worth Rs 3 lakh at the bungalow of Collector of Bhind district and then reached the doorstep of PWD Executive Engineer Pankaj Kumar Gupta to get the bill passed. But EE demanded a bribe of Rs 75,000 in exchange for passing the bill. The distressed contractor somehow gave ₹55,000. But even after this the executive engineer’s greed for money did not diminish. The troubled contractor got EE handed over to the Lokayukta.
Officials called doctors and ambulance
As soon as he was caught taking bribe, PWD EE PK Gupta pretended to have high blood pressure and heart attack in front of the Lokayukta team. But the officials did not leave his hands. Also called the doctor and ambulance on the spot. The doctor also checked up the accused engineer and did not find any problem. During this entire action, the accused engineer kept pleading to spare himself. He declared himself innocent and started touching the feet of the Lokayukta team.
Mahendra Singh told the media that the matter was finalized for Rs 70 thousand and he also gave Rs 55 thousand to the executive engineer. After this, Executive Engineer PK Gupta started demanding ₹ 15 thousand more. The troubled contractor complained about this to Gwalior Lokayukta. After this, the Lokayukta team gave a voice recorder to Mahendra Singh and in it Mahendra Singh recorded the conversation about the bribe transaction.
After obtaining the voice recording, the Lokayukta team sent Mahendra Singh to Executive Engineer PK Gupta by giving him ₹ 15 thousand notes laced with chemicals as bribe. Mahendra Singh met PK Gupta at Chhatri No. 15 located in the fair grounds of Gwalior. Here, as soon as contractor Mahendra Singh handed over a bribe of ₹ 15,000 to PK Gupta, the Lokayukta team caught the accused PK Gupta.
