Unnao, Sept. 12 -- The Anti-Corruption Organization (ACO) team apprehended a woman Lekhpal (revenue official) red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 in Unnao district. The operation was carried out following a complaint by a local farmer who alleged harassment and bribery demands in return for processing his land-related work.
According to reports, the complainant, Shriram, a farmer from Mohinikheda village under Purwa Tehsil, had been making repeated rounds of the tehsil office to get approximately three biswa (around 1,620 sq ft) of his roadside land on the Akohari-Maurawan highway near Koratganj village converted to commercial use. Despite his efforts, the process was not moving forward due to the absence of a required report f...