Butterfly park awaits inauguration as corporator lands in ACB net
Butterfly park awaits inauguration as corporator lands in ACB net
Surat: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) ‘clipped the wings’ of Surat BJP corporator Vina Joshi before she could inaugurate the state’s first butterfly park at Sarthana Zoo on Friday.
ACB sleuths arrested Vina, who is also the chairperson of the Gardens and Housing Development Committee, for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 to regularise an illegal construction in Udhna. Her husband, Jitendra, who accepted the money on her behalf, was also arrested.
The corporator is learnt to have demanded Rs 1.11 lakh from a resident of Udhna Harinagar, who had started the construction work of his house without taking permission from the Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC).
According to the ACB, the complainant, Devidayalsinh Rajput, a resident of Udhna Harinagar-3, is a land and estate agent, who was building a house for his son in Udhna Karmayogi Nagar-1, Plot 89 about three months ago.
“Nearly a fortnight ago, Rajput came to know that Vina had lodged a complaint in the SMC against the construction. He went to her place in Pandesara, Gujarat Housing Board Colony on several occasions. Vina, who initially adopted a stern attitude, eventually demanded a bribe of Rs 2 lakh, which was settled at Rs 1.11 lakh,” said an ACB official.
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