Rajasthan MLA Jaikrishn Patel Arrested For Taking Rs 20 Lakh Bribe For Dropping Questions In Assembly
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Rajasthan on Sunday arrested Bharat Adivasi Party MLA Jaikrishn Patel for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 20 lakh for dropping three questions in the state Assembly, a senior ACB official said. Director General of ACB, Ravi Prakash Meharda, said this is the first time in the history of the Rajasthan ACB that an MLA has been arrested in a graft case. Patel, 38, is a first-time MLA from Banswara district’s Bagidora assembly constituency (ST). He was elected in the bypolls held along with the Lok Sabha elections last year. “Patel allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 10 crore from the complainant to drop questions related to mines. The deal was settled for Rs 2.5 crore. The complainant gave him Rs 1 lakh in Banswara at the time of verification. Today, he was trapped on the MLA quarters premises while taking Rs 20 lakh,” Meharda said. He claimed that the MLA handed over the bag of cash to a man who managed to escape with it. The ACB officials are …
