Thane Deputy Municipal Commissioner Shankar Patole was suspended from service on Saturday after he was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on October 2 in an alleged bribery case. The agency claims they first caught a private person, Omkar Gaikar, red handed for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25 lakh on the instructions of Patole on October 2. Later in the evening, Patole was also arrested from his Thane office based on technical evidence, in which Patole was found speaking with the complainant, a private developer, allegedly demanding bribes and instructing Gaikar to accept the money, a senior police officer said.

Following the complaint, the agency also conducted an investigation and learnt that on Patole’s instruction, Rs 10 lakh bribe was transferred in the bank account of a pri

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