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Mangaluru, Mar 23: In a significant anti-corruption operation, Lokayukta sleuths have apprehended Mansoor Ali, commissioner of the Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA), red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 25 lac. The bribe was being solicited in exchange for issuing TDR clearance.

Under the leadership of DySP Cheluvaraj, inspectors Amanulla and Suresh Kumar, the operation unfolded, resulting in the arrest of Mansoor Ali and broker Mohammed Saleem.

Mansoor Ali (left) and Mohammed Saleem

The operation stems from a complaint filed by Sri Giridhar Shetty of Sagar Courts, Kottara, Mangaluru, alleging harassment by Mansoor Ali and Mohammed Saleem regarding the issuance of a TDR certificate.

Following the trap set by the Lokayukta team, both accused were caught red-handed after accepting the bribe. A sum of Rs 25 lac was seized from them, and they are currently in police custody.

The case was registered under CR No - 03/2024 u/s 7[a] PC Act 1988 [amendment Act 2018] on March 22.

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Roshan, Bangalore
Mon, Mar 25 2024
I WONDER WHY THERE IS NO ACTION ON MCC OFFICERS WHO HARASS CITIZENS IN ISSUING E KHATA..CITIZENS RUNNING FROM PILLAR TO POST BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS.SO MANY PROPERTY DEALINGS OF CITIZENS HAS TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO THIS .

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Vardaraj Shetty, Mangalore
Mon, Mar 25 2024
Saleem has a heart of gold! He should be released ASAP! I have known him for a long time and he has always been helping people!

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santhosh kudroli, Mangalore
Mon, Mar 25 2024
its a very shocking news. totally wrong. Saleem in known very much as being very kind and humble. i have seen him going out of the way to help people irresepctive of caste, creed. There must be someone who must have misused his helping nature and used him.

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Rita, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
This is wrong! Saleem was just trapped because of the big bosses. This is how the people in power get away and the simple people get caught !!!

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Crystal, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Mohammad saleem is a kind man who was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. The real culprits need to be punished. I have seen him help everyone around him. May God be with him and let him be free soon.

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Alonso, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
The big fish do the wrong but the innocent men get caught! Mohammad Saleem has always been a humble and helpful man! It's a trap!! Let the lord give patience to the family.

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WSDA, Moodbidri
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Dear Lokayuktha , can you kindly raid on Moodbidri Municipality council? The official employee (ladies specially ) who is taking bribes . They are very very rude and without giving bribes no work will be done. One of my friend was looted by lady who works in Moodbidri TMC. She looted him 40k just getting the khata done as it was coming under Muda and she later fooled him saying now MUDA has cancelled . He lost 40k. How the common people will survive ?

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Rajesh, Udupi
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Dear Lokayuktha team, there was enormous amount of corruption and irregularities done in Udupi urban development authority during the state election 2023. The sites where notified as Akrama- Sakrama has been given single layout approval by the former UUDA commissioner. Please start inquiry and publish the report to the public.

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Jamal, Mangalore/UAE
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Good they are caught red handed. But it is near to impossible to iradicate corruption. One small example is, if you go to mini vidhana soudha to get the property tax done through a advocate you will have pay to each person where the paper goes from the top to bottom you have to pay. Big fish for a signature it is Rs. 700, for the typist 400 the list goes on. And at the last for printing and giving Rs. 200

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M.Mathias, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Corrupt big group is behind this bribe. Need to enquire local MLA and MP.

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
@Monty; the problem with big projects is that majority of the developers are involved in all sorts of manipulation to squeeze maximum amount of money as possible and push the project to the buyers; in such a situation, these chaps have to shell out lots of money to the authorities concerned; so it's a give and take affair! I wonder how many multistoried structures will actually pass the authorization stage if at all the processes were to be reviewed again....imo.....none???

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
@Monty; the problem with big projects is that majority of the developers are involved in all sorts of manipulation to squeeze maximum amount of money as possible and push the project to the buyers; in such a situation, these chaps have to shell out lots of money to the authorities concerned; so it's a give and take affair! I wonder how many multistoried structures will actually pass the authorization stage if at all the processes were to be reviewed again....imo.....none???

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Haneef, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
If Anti corruption will act impartially we need to rent whole Africa to lodge these corrupts from PM to Peon!

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
@Monty Dotor; forget about these big fishes; in my very keen observation, in Mangluru, every second person is a self styled finance/brokerage professional; these people are so hungry for moolah that they take cuts in every dealing they get involved into, right from birthday party upto the grave (including the undertaker and all associated procedures rituals) . ...

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Monty Dotor, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
If most of the government and Municipal work is done online without person to person contact - like incometax dept corruption will reduce. So that the servers are not intentionally kept " down" , the IT portion should be outsourced to big IT companies like what they did in issuing passports.

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chandra, Surathkal
Sun, Mar 24 2024
MUDA comes under state govt OR central govt?

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N Mukkawala, Kinnigoly
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Such shameless parasites exist in every govt office, as long as corrupt citizens exist.

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Bala, Kudla
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Kunhimon not impressed. Man of siddha trapped. But this will open up many stories.

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J.F.D Souza, Attavar, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Both MUDA and MCC are sailing in the same boat. Lokayuktha should take stringet action and stop this bribing activities.

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Samson Dsouza, Aikala/Dubai
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Transferable Development Rights or TDR allows the developer to build over and above the permissible Floor Space Index (FSI) under the prevalent rules of the respective locations.

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Monty Dotor, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
I have seen a person just like Saleem (broker) some years before. He used to hang around the revenue section of MCC, if he is the same person he has an outstanding loan of 42L with Canara Bank, now with interest more than 70 L ( hence probably now " promoted " to MUDA. The name of his building is same as that of SRK's house!!!

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Dilip, Kudla
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Looks like a local political vendetta. Earlier some sexual harassment case was there against this gentleman. Let the truth be told.

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Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront
Sun, Mar 24 2024
10 Years ...

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Shammi, Muscat
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Rudy manipis,Loretto What u want to compare.want to know about islam u are most welcome.Dont try compare religion to humans activities.mind your business

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k b r, Mangala Uru
Sat, Mar 23 2024
they need the money to celebrate the impending festival on a grand and shaahi style ...

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Shekar Moily, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
It is ridiculous that siphoning of fund,bribe, corruption is taking place only at higher level,by highly educated authorities at higher level. Arrests are being carried out by Lokayukta and after that what happens God only knows.Unless our legal system is not streamlined, corruption,bribe etc cannot be stopped.

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HENRY MISQUITH, INDIA
Sat, Mar 23 2024
In the Mangalore property card office and taluk office, they directly ask for bribes. If you don’t give, they delay your work and harass innocent people. This is my personal experience.”

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Though, imo, this might be a regular kickback for all big projects where the stakes are very high (the builders too earn a lot by charging highly inflated rates for flats from gullible and ill informed investors who later on get trapped), this guy is very unlucky to have gotten trapped, which seems to have been a very well planned trap! Please note that this is an unbiased personal opinion only and in no way condones the act of accepting and giving bribes; please do your own research and analysis!!

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KS Mayya, Mangalore/Bangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Let us not tie it with Ramadan because most of us do not understand or practice, especially those that comment whilst expecting reciprocity that do not comment about our religion if you do not understand. I do not that think that religion encourages corruption. But every religion explains what corruption is viz., what you do not do at home in aid of your parents and family is corruption. Let us leave it at that.

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Dr Gerald Pinto, Kallianpur
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Any appointment done by paying money ...they have to recover. So problem is somewhere else. Poor teachers and lecturers they can't recover still they to pay specially from aided to the people who get salary from govt and all are govt employees.

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Then where such huge amounts of hard cash collected as capitation fees for seats in pvt professional colleges go and what do you think the quality of the end product be, any views??

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Yogi, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Corruption is difficult to root out. The problem lies in the administrative system for which reforms are needed. Sometimes it may depend on the greed of the individual occupying the all important "chair".

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N Shetty, Suratkal
Sat, Mar 23 2024
V good... Bulldoze their Houses....

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Kiran, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಕರ್ಚುಗು ಬೋಡತ ಮಾರ್ರೆ...

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Sukesh alva, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Ramadaan ನಿನ್ನ ಮೊನೆಗ್ ಕರೀಂ

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HENRY MISQUITH, INDIA
Sat, Mar 23 2024
As you sow so shall you reap. Same things are happening in Mangalore Property card office and Taluq office.

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KS Mayya, Mangalore/Bangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Lokayukta only can make arrest, and everything stops there only. Have any lokayukta arrests culminated in prison terms? None actually. Lokayuta bill was diluted to ensure that it does not have the teeth to bite and that wrests with police department which works under the control of the government of the day.

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Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai-Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
@Mayaji; bro, please research and see for yourself the CR of the ED since 2005; you will have nothing to answer... Hehe😏

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NARAHARI RAO KAIKAMBA, kaikamba
Sat, Mar 23 2024
In holy month also he is accepting bribe. Shame, Shame ...

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ca girishkk, valencia/m'lore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
40% gang members..., part of legacy team..,

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Rudy manipis, Loretto
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Ramadan Kareem

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Monty Dotor, Mangalore
Sat, Mar 23 2024
At least during the Holy month , do not commit a sin....Baaki Sab Changa Si...

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Kiran Poojary, Mangaluru/Bengaluru
Sat, Mar 23 2024
ಹೋಳಿ month. ಕೋಳಿ vanas.

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Yakub, Kudla
Sun, Mar 24 2024
ನಾಲಗೆ ಗೆ ಹಿಡಿತ ಇರಲಿ

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DEEPAK, Mangalore
Sun, Mar 24 2024
Very true

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Vikhyath rai, Sullia
Sat, Mar 23 2024
Effect of freeby government

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