Port Blair, Sept. 6: The CBI team from Port Blair caught Sita Nagar Gram Panchayat Secretary, Anil Sharma  red handed while accepting the bribe of Rs. 5,000 from a local contractor and registered a criminal case against him. The Panchayat secretary demanded a bribe of Rs.5,000/- from a Contractor for releasing the 10% of the Security Deposit held by the Panchayat. The contractor, who is the complainant, was doing the construction works allotted by the Panchayat to certain Societies which in turn allotted the work to the said Contractor on certain commission.  The demand of bribe was initially for Rs.12,000/- and later  brought down to Rs.5,000/- for releasing the security deposit amount of Rs. 60,000/- .

The CBI team headed by Deputy .Superintendent .of Police caught Anil Sharma red handed on 04th September last at Diglipur while accepting the bribe and the tainted money was recovered from his possession.  He has been arrested and produced before the Special Judge for CBI cases, Port Blair.

The trap was the result of the SMS campaign launched by the CBI recently. The CBI appealed to the general pubic  to come forward and lodge complaints through SMS against public servants demanding bribe for doing official works.(PIB)