Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau on Tuesday afternoon trapped and arrested a principal of higher education department in summer capital Srinagar for accepting bribe.
Official sources told that one professor, Tariq Ashai who is the principal of GDC Pattan, was arrested red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rupees 60,000 at SP College here.
They said that on receipt of the complaint, a FIR was registered, under section 7 Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 in Police Station ACB Central Kashmir and investigation was taken up.
Accordingly a trap team was constituted. The trap team laid a successful trap and caught Tariq Ashai while accepting a bribe of rupees 60,000 on the spot in presence of independent witnesses.
The official was taken to a police station in Srinagar and further investigation into the matter is going on.
