Chandigarh SDM arrested by CBI for bribery

Chandigarh Aug 6 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Shilpi Patar sub-divisional magistrate (East) of Chandigarh over her alloeged involvement in a bribery case officials said on Sunday.

Patar was arrested on Saturday night from her official residence in Sector 27 here by a CBI team.

She accepted a bribe of Rs 50 000 from a businessman whose property the SDM had earlier ordered to be sealed according to the CBI officials.

They said that Patar had approached the businessman Tarsem Kumar through a middleman and demanded Rs 5 lakh.

The deal to allow desealing of the commercial property located at the Sector 26 grain market was finally settled for Rs 2 lakh. The Rs 50 000 was paid as initial instalment to start the process.

Patar is also the Chief Fire Officer of Chandigarh.

--IANS
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