Lokayukta Police arrests Mangaluru aided school convener in bribery case

An aided school coordinator was detained by the Lokayukta Police in Mangaluru, Karnataka, for allegedly accepting a five lakh rupee bribe, according to officials.
The offender was named as Jyothi Poojary, the convener of the Niranjana Swamy aided school in Bajpe, on the outskirts of Mangaluru, in a news release by Lokayukta Police Superintendent of Police (SP) C A Simon. According to the official statement, retired teacher Shobha Rani from the same school asked Jyothi Poojary to sign her pension papers and submit them for approval to the regional education officer.
Without acknowledging the application, the accused Jyothi Poojary demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from Shobha Rani, added the official press release.
Subsequently, the Lokayukta police apprehended Jyothi Poojary on July 7 while she was receiving Rs 5 lakh, and seized the amount, said the official statement.
Earlier in an unrelated incident, the Economic Offences Wing (EoW) of Vigilance Bureau (VB), Ludhiana arrested a clerk for safekeeping of the amount after taking from the former.
The nabbed officer has been identified as Rohit Sharma alias Rohit Kumar, a clerk posted at SDM Malerkotla.
Notably, EoW of VB earlier had arrested Kanoongo Vijaypal for accepting a bribe of rupees 5 lakh in two instalments from complainant Karamjit Singh resident of village Bhaini Kalan in lieu of getting family partition (Khangi Takseem) of his land done and providing compensation of the land acquired for a road, the release stated.
According to the official spokesperson of the Vigilance Bureau said that following the investigations into this case the VB has found the involvement of clerk Rohit Sharma, who is posted as a reader with SDM Malerkotla for receiving the amount from accused Kanoongo for its safekeeping.
He said that the accused clerk has been arrested.