Batote, July 25: The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested Ashok Kumar, Patwari of Patwar Halqa Batote, for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹40,000.
The complainant had approached the ACB after the Patwari allegedly demanded money for registering Virasati Intiqal (inheritance mutation) of ancestral land. A case was registered following verification, and a trap was laid.
Kumar was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe and was arrested on the spot. The bribe money was recovered in the presence of independent witnesses. Further investigation is underway.
