Mangaluru: ACB traps project engineer while taking bribe
Mangaluru, October 03: ACB sleuths on Wednesday trapped a project engineer of Integrated Rural Energy Scheme of the Zilla Panchayat while taking bribe from an agency owner to give subsidy for bio-gas here and recovered Rs 30,000 from the engineer.
The arrested engineer is identified as N. Nagesh. Nagesh has demanded Rs 50,000 to release the subsidy amount. The agency owner had given Rs 15,000 earlier and the engineer was threatening him of not releasing the amount if the remaining Rs 35,000 is not given to him, it is said.
Desperate over his attitude, the agency owner has lodged a complaint with the ACB Mangaluru. On Wednesday, the ACB officials raided Nagesh while taking Rs 30,000 bribe and arrested him and recovered the amount.
ACB SP Shruthi N.S, DySP Sudheer M. Hegde, Inspector Yogish Kumar and staff Hariprasad, Umesh, Radhakrishna K, Prashanth, Vaishaly, Rakesh Vagman, Ganesh, Radhakrishna and Rajesh participated in the raid.
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After disruptions in Middle East, Air India Express to resume Muscat operations From March 3
New Delhi (PTI): Air India Express will restart flights to and from Muscat on Tuesday after suspending services in the wake of the Middle East conflict.
The airline's services to Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will remain suspended until 2359 hours IST on March 3.
In a statement on Monday, the Tata Group-owned carrier said it would resume operations to and from Muscat starting Tuesday (March 3), with scheduled services to Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangaluru, Mumbai, and Tiruchirappalli.
The first Air India Express flight from Muscat will operate to Tiruchirappally, departing at 1025 hours local time, it added.
Many airspaces in the Middle East are closed due to the conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran, as a result of flight operations have been impacted.
