Faridabad power utility official held over ₹30K bribe to clear contractor’s dues

The contractor alleged bills worth ₹4 lakh to ₹5 lakh had remained pending for nearly 14 months. A trap team recovered the cash during a raid at the office.

Published on: Jul 30, 2026, 10:56:24 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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An executive engineer of a power transmission utility was arrested in Faridabad for allegedly accepting a ₹30,000 bribe from a contractor in exchange for clearing bills that had remained pending for nearly 14 months, ACB officials said on Wednesday.

The contractor alleged bills worth ₹4 lakh to ₹5 lakh had remained pending for nearly 14 months. A trap team recovered the cash during a raid at the office. (File photo)

The engineer was posted with the transmission system division at an office in Sector 23, Faridabad. A trap team led by DSP Surender Kinha reached the office around 4.30pm on Tuesday along with the complainant. After the contractor allegedly handed over the bribe and walked out of the engineer’s chamber, the team raided the office and recovered the cash from the accused, officials said.

Kinha said the raid and legal formalities concluded around 8pm, following which the engineer was arrested. “Based on the contractor’s complaint, an FIR under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act was registered at the ACB police station in Faridabad on Tuesday,” he said.

According to ACB officials, the contractor had carried out civil construction and repair works at several power substations over the past two years. While one set of bills was cleared two months ago, another worth ₹4 lakh to ₹5 lakh had remained pending for nearly 14 months. Officials alleged the engineer demanded ₹30,000 to clear the outstanding payment. The contractor then approached the ACB with call recordings that prima facie established the alleged demand for a bribe. The engineer was produced before a Faridabad court on Wednesday and remanded to judicial custody.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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