Chief Engineer held for graft
Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, April 10
The State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested Chief Engineer of the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) PR Rajpal on the charges of demanding and accepting bribe.

SP (Vigilance), Dharamsala zone, Santosh Patial said a contractor from the Bairasilu power project of the NHPC in Chamba district had approached them. He alleged the Chief Engineer was demanding money for clearing his bills.

A trap was laid and the Chief Engineer was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant this evening. He would be produced in the court tomorrow, the SP (Vigilance) said.

Sources said it was for the first time in the state that an officer of the level of a chief engineer had been arrested on the charge of accepting bribe.