Yadav took bribe from CCTV, computer companies: Police

Jaipur: Joint director of the Department of Information Technology Ved Prakash Yadav, held by the police for recovery of cash and gold, allegedly took bribe from companies that supplied CCTV cameras, computers and LED screens to government departments, the police said.

Yadav was recruited in 1994 as a programmer and was the store incharge of DoIT for the past 20 years. He became a joint director in 2019-20.

The police had recovered more than Rs 2.31 crore in cash and gold weighing 1 kilogram from a locked almirah in the basement of Yadav’s office building at Yojana Bhavan.

It is clearly visible in the CCTV that after the duty was over, Ved Prakash Yadav went to the basement with a laptop bag on his shoulder, opened the lock of the cupboard and kept the bag.

Jaipur Police Commissioner Anand Srivastava said that the police team had to watch CCTV footage of more than 30 days to nab Yadav. At the same time, a police team interrogated more than 50 officers and employees of the department.

When Yadav was interrogated, he confessed that he had taken this amount as bribe from different people. Instead of taking them home, he used to collect them here.

When the accused confessed to the crime, the police searched his Ambabadi residence from where they found several documents. The accused was sitting on this post for many years.