Public Works Department Engineer arrested in Mangaluru for bribery
Mangaluru: In an anti-corruption operation, officers from the Lokayukta Police arrested Ronald Lobo, a Junior Engineer from the Public Works Department (PWD), red-handed as he was accepting a bribe from a contractor at his office in Bondel, Mangaluru, on Wednesday.
The arrest followed a complaint lodged by Prabhakar Naik, a Level-2 contractor working with the PWD, who alleged that Lobo, responsible for quality control in the department, demanded a bribe of Rs 22,000 from him. Naik, who had undertaken construction work amounting to Rs 45 lakh in the SCST Colonies of two villages in Belthangady taluk, refused to comply with the illegal demand.
Upon receiving the complaint, the Lokayukta Police initiated an investigation under the guidance of Superintendent of Police CA Simon. The police team visited the PWD office and apprehended Lobo while he was accepting the bribe from Naik.
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
