A junior engineer of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), who was booked in 2017 for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 30,000 from a hotel owner, has been acquitted by a special court. The court said that as demolition was carried out at the hotel owner’s property a month before the complaint, it cannot be ruled out that the allegations were made as ‘revenge’.

Rahul Lokhande, booked by the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), under charges including relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, was cleared by the court which found discrepancies in the case.

According to the prosecution, the hotel owner had carried out some repairs for which a complaint was filed with the civic body. The owner had claimed that Lokhande sought a bribe of Rs 30,000 to grant him permission for r

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