{"id":14452,"date":"2026-03-12T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=14452"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:23:53","slug":"acb-traps-rdd-budgam-official-in-bribery-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/acb-traps-rdd-budgam-official-in-bribery-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ACB traps RDD Budgam official in bribery case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Srinagar, Mar 12:\u00a0<\/strong>The Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday said it trapped and arrested a Technical Assistant in the Rural Development Department Jammu and Kashmir at Block Budgam for allegedly demanding and accepting a rupees 40,000 bribe for preparing and releasing bills related to work executed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">In a statement, a spokesperson said the Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau today received a written complaint alleging that Sajad Ahmad Raina, Technical Assistant in the office of the Rural Development Department (RDD), Block Budgam, resident of Kralwari Budgam, was demanding a bribe of rupees 40,000 for preparation and release of bills in favour of the complainant for completion of work executed under the MGNREGA scheme.<\/p>\n<p>He said, during the pre-trap verification, it was revealed that the accused public servant was insisting on payment of rupees 40,000 as bribe, which the complainant was unwilling to pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant arranged rupees 5,000 in cash and a cheque of rupees 35,000 and approached ACB. The verification confirmed the demand of bribe, accordingly FIR No. 06\/2026 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was registered at P\/S ACB Srinagar, and investigation taken up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, during the course of investigation, a trap team constituted. The team laid a successful trap and caught the accused public servant red-handed in the office of RDD Block Budgam while demanding and accepting a bribe of rupees 5,000 in cash and a cheque of rupees 35,000 from the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search of the accused&#8217;s handbag, rupees 39,300 in cash was also recovered. The accused was taken into custody after completing all medico-legal formalities. Further investigation into the case is in progress,\u201d said the spokesperson<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Mar 12:\u00a0The Jammu and Kashmir Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday said it trapped and arrested a Technical Assistant in the Rural Development Department Jammu and Kashmir at Block Budgam for allegedly demanding and accepting a rupees 40,000 bribe for preparing and releasing bills related to work executed under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14454,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14452\/revisions\/14454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}