Synopsis: A junior engineer was arrested for allegedly demanding a ₹ 20,000 bribe, reduced to ₹ 9,000, to process an agricultural electricity connection for a police constable named Bhupathi Raja. Raja alerted the Anti-Corruption Bureau, who set a trap with chemically marked notes. The accused, Rajendran, was caught during a raid and arrested. Investigations continue to uncover potential accomplices or similar complaints.

A junior engineer from the Electricity Department in Puducherry’s Vadhanur was held on Saturday, 25 October, Saturday, for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate an electricity connection for agricultural land.

The complainant, Bhupathi Raja, a resident of Sellipet village and a constable with the Puducherry police, had applied for a new agricultural electricity

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