A sitting Additional Judge and a court clerk in Mumbai have been booked by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly demanding and accepting a ₹15 lakh bribe in exchange for a favourable order in a commercial land dispute.

The case targets Additional Judge Ejazuddin Salauddin Kazi of the Mazagaon Civil & Sessions Court and court clerk Chandrakant Hanmant Vasudev. The ACB action follows a trap operation where Vasudev was allegedly caught red-handed accepting the bribe money, which he then reportedly confirmed to the judge via a phone call.

The chain of events leading to the bust began on November 10, when a complainant, whose wife is involved in a long-standing property case, approached the ACB. According to the bureau, the complainant alleged that Vasudev had been persistently deman

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