Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Kuldeep Bohra, a BJP Councillor of Beawar Municipal Council in Rajasthan for demanded a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh from a shop owner. Kuldeep was absconding after action of ACB. Today he surrendered in Ajmer court. They were arrested and taken on remand.
According to ACB, the complainant had claimed that he had renovated his house situated at Shahpura Mohalla and constructed a hall on the ground floor and started a sweet shop. After that, a complaint was lodged in Nagar Parishad and on April 22, a notice of the parishad was served stating that his construction was illegal and demanded papers within three days with an ultimatum of demolishing the shop.
The complainant said after getting the notice, he got a call 22 days later from BJP worker Bharat Mangal asking him that if he wanted to solve the matter, he should pay Rs 3 lakh to Bharatiya Janata Party councillor Anil Choudhary of ward 56, Kuldeep Bohra of ward 57 and also to Surendra Soni of ward 19.
After verification of the complaint, a trap was laid by a team of ACB sleuths. On Thursday (June 10) when councillor Kuldeep and Bharat went to the shop of the complainant and said that two people would come 10 minutes later to collect Rs 2.5 lakh to settle the issue of notice related to illegal construction.
Few minutes later, a youth named Sunil Lakhara came and asked for the money, when he was arrested by ACB with Rs 2.5 lakh. He said Kuldeep and Bharat sent him collect the money from this shop. The ACB team later went to arrest Kuldeep and Bharat, but Kuldeep managed to give ACB the slip while Mangal was nabbed.