Srinagar, Dec. 21 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Saturday arrested a revenue official in Shopian for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe.

The ACB received a written complaint claiming that the complainant had submitted an application in the Tehsil Office Shopian, regarding the equal proportion of ancestral property of his wife and his sister in law, which had not been transferred in equal shares amongst their siblings, an ACB spokesman said.

He further mentioned that the application was submitted before the tehsildar of Shopian, about three months ago, and the tehsildar had forwarded it to the relevant revenue official (patwari) for necessary action.

When the complainant approached the patwari of Patwar ...