Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Dec 4: The court here, through a judgment passed on December 30, jailed an inspector of revenue department, holding him guilty of demanding and accepting bribe to affect land records Khata transfer of a person. The revenue inspector concerned has been ordered to undergo a year of imprisonment and pay a sum of Rs 5,000 by way of fine. In case of failure to pay fine, he will have to be in jail for one more month.

The revenue inspector had been held red-handed when accepting bribe from Chandrashekhar Nayak, a resident of Hermunde village in Karkala taluk. The accused, identified as Trivikram Adiga, who was posted as revenue inspector at Ajekar/Marne Nadakacheri of the revenue department, reportedly demanded Rs 3,000 from Nayak for changing the Khata relating to 8.45 acres of land located in survey No. 9 and 127 in Hermunde village to his name, although the civil court had passed orders to change the ownership of this property to Nayak. Out of this, Adiga claimed, Rs 1,000 represents share of the village accountant.

After Chandrashekhar Nayak complained to the Lokayukta police station here in 2012, the then Lokayukta inspector, P B Dinesh Kumar, trapped Adiga when accepting money from the complainant, arrested him, and filed case under Prevention of Corruption Act. He was produced in the court, and charge sheet was filed in course of time.

The district and sessions judge, Shivashankar B Amarannavar, who conducted hearing in the case, found the accused guilty and passed orders accordingly. Special public prosecutor attached to the Lokayukta here, Vijayakumar Shetty, represented the prosecution in this case.