Lokayukta traps Dharwad tahsildar; ₹50 lakh seized

The Lokayukta Police arrested Dharwad tahsildar Sachchidanand Kachanur, while he was allegedly accepting ₹50 lakh as bribe for rectification of records. He was remanded in 14-day judicial custody by the Lokayukta Special Court in Dharwad on Thursday.

The Lokayukta sleuths had caught Mr. Kachanur red-handed during a late-night trap operation near Karnatak College in Dharwad on Wednesday and he was produced before the court on Thursday, which remanded him in judicial custody till October 1.

According to Lokayukta Police, Mr. Kachanur had allegedly demanded ₹1 crore in two instalments of ₹50 lakh each, besides one acre of land, in connection with changes to the title records of a 33-acre land at Yerikoppa village, located around 12 km from Dharwad on the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway.