<p class="title">The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday trapped two people for accepting a bribe from a deputy range forest officer in Tiptur, Tumakuru district. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The arrested have been identified as Poornima, assistant public prosecutor, and Sharan Kumar N, a typist at the JMFC Court in Tiptur. According to the ACB, Poornima had sought a bribe of Rs 40,000 from the DyRFO after he was acquitted by the JMFC court in order to not appeal his acquittal. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Of the Rs 40,000, Poornima had asked the DyRFO to transfer Rs 20,000 to her bank account. The rest was to be paid to Sharan Kumar. ACB officials caught Sharan red-handed and subsequently arrested Poornima. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that Poornima was among those against whom the Lokayukta had filed a charge sheet in 2017 for altering the answer sheets of the candidates for the assistant public prosecutor and additional government pleaders examination in 2014.</p>
<p class="title">The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday trapped two people for accepting a bribe from a deputy range forest officer in Tiptur, Tumakuru district. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The arrested have been identified as Poornima, assistant public prosecutor, and Sharan Kumar N, a typist at the JMFC Court in Tiptur. According to the ACB, Poornima had sought a bribe of Rs 40,000 from the DyRFO after he was acquitted by the JMFC court in order to not appeal his acquittal. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Of the Rs 40,000, Poornima had asked the DyRFO to transfer Rs 20,000 to her bank account. The rest was to be paid to Sharan Kumar. ACB officials caught Sharan red-handed and subsequently arrested Poornima. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Sources said that Poornima was among those against whom the Lokayukta had filed a charge sheet in 2017 for altering the answer sheets of the candidates for the assistant public prosecutor and additional government pleaders examination in 2014.</p>
