Fire official arrested while taking bribe in Sector 53

A fire department official was arrested for accepting a ₹15,000 bribe to avoid filing a negative report about an accountant linked to a recent fire.

Published on: May 15, 2026, 05:58:08 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A fire department official was arrested on Thursday while accepting a bribe of ₹15,000 from an accountant of a society on the Golf Course Road in Sector 53, officials said.

Officials said the arrest was made by the Haryana state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (ACB). (Shutterstock)

Officials said the arrest was made by the Haryana state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (ACB). The accountant was bribing the official asking him not to prepare an adverse report against her.

The 38-year-old lead fireman was posted at the Sector 29 fire station, officials said.

A senior ACB official said that the accountant was posted in the maintenance department of the society where a fire had broken out in an apartment on April 13 this year.

“The lead fireman had threatened the accountant that he will submit a report to the department mentioning her negligence had resulted in the fire and demanded ₹20,000 from her,” the official said

ACB officials said they finalised the price at ₹15, 000. They said he asked her to reach his office on Thursday to pay the amount.

ACB inspector Raj Karan, Gurugram unit, said that the victim contacted them and filed a written complaint against the fireman on Thursday afternoon. “She also submitted call recordings,” he said.

ACB officials said the ACB team also recovered ₹2.98 lakh cash from his car parked inside the fire station. They said he was being questioned about the recovered cash.

“An FIR was registered against him under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and 308(2) (extortion) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at ACB Gurugram police station,” the official said.

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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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