
Smart City officer caught for graft
The Hindu
Anti-Corruption Bureau officers caught a senior officer of the Smart City project, while he was accepting a bribe from a contractor in Belagavi on Thursday.
Officers laid a trap for Siddanayaka Doddabasappa, general manager, technical, while he was receiving ₹60,000 from the complainant, Sanjiv Kumar Navalgund. A subsequent raid at the house of Doddabasappa yielded ₹23 lakh in cash, that was unaccounted for as on Thursday. Mr. Navalgund had approached the ACB saying that the officer, who is of the rank of chief engineer, had demanded a 0.5 per cent commission for the bills he had cleared recently.
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