Two forest dept employees arrested for accepting bribe in Reasi

Jammu, May 30 (PTI) The anti corruption bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a block forest officer (BFO) and a forest guard for allegedly accepting a bribe from a person involved in illegal felling of trees in a forest area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said.

They were identified as Sat Pal (BFO) and Abneet Kumar (forest guard), they said.

The accused were caught accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from the man involved in felling of trees to settle the case against him, the officials said.