Pramesh S Jain & Siddarth Sethia
Anti Corruption Bureau officials on Wednesday trapped Personal Assistant of Technical Director of BESCOM,while accepting bribe from an electrical contractor for an official favour.
The contractor had applied to get four transformers for a residential layout in Hosakote .
The accused demanded Rs.10,000 for each transformer amounts to total Rs.40,000.
The contractor approached the ACB based on which the officials trapped the accused Shanmukhappa red handed while accepting the bribe.
According to the officials Shanmukhappa was retired in 2019 but continue to work on contract basis .
He has been booked under PC act for further investigations.
