Municipality chairman caught red-handed with Rs 65,000 bribe

Jodhpur: A team of the ACB on Saturday arrested a municipality chairman redhanded while accepting a bribe of Rs 65,000 in Jodhpur district.

Rewat Ram, the chairman of the Balesar Satta municipality, was arrested while he was accepting the bribe, the ACB said in a statement issued here. The complainant said that he was being harassed by Ram -- a former sarpanch of Balesar Satta Gram Panchayat — who is currently the chairman of the Balesar Satta municipality.

The complainant added that Ram demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in lieu of issuing the lease deed of his plot.