{"id":304772,"date":"2018-10-29T05:41:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304772"},"modified":"2018-10-29T05:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:41:57","slug":"gujarat-congress-mla-parsotam-sabariya-arrested-for-taking-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-congress-mla-parsotam-sabariya-arrested-for-taking-bribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat: Congress MLA Parsotam Sabariya arrested for taking bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300656 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jail-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail-529x420.jpg 529w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress MLA Parsotam Sabariya from Dhrangadhra was arrested on Sunday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from persons accused in the irrigation scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sabariya was arrested from Gujarat\u2019s Morbi district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police, Sabariya had demanded Rs 40 lakh bribe from accused persons in the irrigation scam, in exchange for not raising the issue at local level and inside the Assembly as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMLA Parsotam Sabariya had demanded\u00a0Rs.\u00a040 lakh for not raising the issue in the Assembly or before the government and settled for\u00a0Rs.\u00a035 lakh, out of which\u00a0Rs.\u00a010 lakh was given to him through a middleman. Another\u00a0Rs.\u00a025 lakh was given to the middleman in the form of a cheque,&#8221; Superintendent of Police, Morbi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Sabariya, a lawyer, an assistant engineer, a contractual person, and two others have been arrested by the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, 334 minor irrigation projects worth\u00a0Rs.\u00a020 crore were approved by the Gujarat government in villages in Morbi district for previous and current financial years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe state government, after receiving complaints, had launched an investigation into the irrigation projects which revealed irregularities and mismanagement,\u201d Police added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MLA Parsotam Sabariya from Dhrangadhra was arrested on Sunday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from persons accused in the irrigation scam. Sabariya was arrested from Gujarat\u2019s Morbi district. According to the police, Sabariya had demanded Rs 40 lakh bribe from accused persons in the irrigation scam, in exchange for not raising the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[9060,9061,593,9062],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304775,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304772\/revisions\/304775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}