Mumbai: BMC executive engineer Mandar Tari, who was on the run for nearly five months in a corruption case in which the ACB laid a trap and arrested two touts for accepting a bribe of Rs 75 lakh from a developer, was arrested on Thursday.
ACB officials said they arrested Tari after he appeared before a court to attend the non-bailable warrant hearing against him.
Early this month, the Bombay high court rejected Tari’s anticipatory bail, saying that the records indicated Tari was in constant touch with the co-accused tout, Mohammed Saha.
In the case against Tari, a builder was told to pay Rs 75 lakh to save his alleged ilegal construction from demolition, which BMC officials were threatening to do.
Saha and another alleged tout, Pratik Pise, were caught red-handed accepting the bribe money. They are out on bail.
