A Sarpanch of the Bhartiya Janta Party from Anantnag has been arrested by the Anti Corrution Beuaru on the charges of taking bribe.
An official said that a sarpanch from Kandigam village of Anantnag district affiliated with the BJP was arrested by ACB on Wednesday.
Identified as Abid Nengroo, the district youth president of BJP was caught red handed while taking a sum of 10,000 rupees as bribe from the contractors; who came to his residential quarter for some work where he demanded the bribe from them, later the contractors contacted the ACB and he was arrested.
The residential quarters of the accused Sarpanch where the bribe was demanded is just adjacent to the ACB branch office.