Varanasi: The Anti-Corruption Team on Friday arrested a junior engineer (JE) of the electricity department while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 22,000.Inspector Umashankar Yadav said the complainant, Amit Kumar Srivastava of Taktakpur, had applied online on June 6 for a temporary electricity connection for construction of his new house in Manshanagar Colony. He met JE Sukhdev Rastogi of the Pandeypur electricity sub-station on June 10 to follow up on the application, during which the JE allegedly demanded Rs 22,000 to process the connection.On Friday, the JE called the applicant to his plot. At around 11:44 am, as soon as he accepted the bribe, the Anti-Corruption Team caught him on the spot. A chemical test conducted at the scene turned the water pink when the JE’s hands were washed, confirming contact with the treated currency notes. The team also recovered the full bribe amount from his possession.
