<p>Arjun Vanzara, elder son of former Gujarat top cop D G Vanzara, was on Tuesday trapped and nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for taking a bribe of Rs 75,000.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Arjun, a mamlatdar in Vadodara rural, is learnt to have sought Rs 1,00,000 to strike off a bogus entry in a land deal under his jurisdiction. However, the deal was finalised for Rs 75,000. <br /><br />Sources in the police department said Arjun was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe from his accomplice, deputy mamlatdar Jaswantsinh Hajure. <br /><br />The ACB is also learnt to have recovered Rs 3.27 lakh cash from his car. The ACB have taken Arjun and Hajure for further interrogation.<br /><br />Mamlatdar (or tahsildar) is a gazetted officer of the state government and heads a taluka. <br />Among several roles, a mamlatdar primarily conducts revenue administration as a custodian of land records. It is his duty to preserve land records and update them from time-to-time.<br />Arjun’s father Vanzara has been a high-profile cop in the state and has been linked to several “fake” encounters in Gujarat between October 2002 and December 2006.<br /><br />Vanzara, along with other officers, has been facing charges of being part of plotting a number of encounters, including two that received maximum public attention. <br /><br />One, the killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004. Second, the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi in 2005, and his associate Tulsiram Prajapati in 2006. <br /><br />Vanzara was in jail for eight years before he got bail in February 2015 on the condition that he would not enter Gujarat.<br /><br />This forced him to reside in Mumbai and it is only after a special CBI court granted him permission to enter his home state that he returned to Gujarat in April last. He received a rousing welcome on his return and has also hinted at joining politics.<br />Arjun’s cousin Manjita, too, is a serving IPS officer in Gujarat. <br /><br /></p>
<p>Arjun Vanzara, elder son of former Gujarat top cop D G Vanzara, was on Tuesday trapped and nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for taking a bribe of Rs 75,000.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Arjun, a mamlatdar in Vadodara rural, is learnt to have sought Rs 1,00,000 to strike off a bogus entry in a land deal under his jurisdiction. However, the deal was finalised for Rs 75,000. <br /><br />Sources in the police department said Arjun was caught red-handed while accepting the bribe from his accomplice, deputy mamlatdar Jaswantsinh Hajure. <br /><br />The ACB is also learnt to have recovered Rs 3.27 lakh cash from his car. The ACB have taken Arjun and Hajure for further interrogation.<br /><br />Mamlatdar (or tahsildar) is a gazetted officer of the state government and heads a taluka. <br />Among several roles, a mamlatdar primarily conducts revenue administration as a custodian of land records. It is his duty to preserve land records and update them from time-to-time.<br />Arjun’s father Vanzara has been a high-profile cop in the state and has been linked to several “fake” encounters in Gujarat between October 2002 and December 2006.<br /><br />Vanzara, along with other officers, has been facing charges of being part of plotting a number of encounters, including two that received maximum public attention. <br /><br />One, the killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004. Second, the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi in 2005, and his associate Tulsiram Prajapati in 2006. <br /><br />Vanzara was in jail for eight years before he got bail in February 2015 on the condition that he would not enter Gujarat.<br /><br />This forced him to reside in Mumbai and it is only after a special CBI court granted him permission to enter his home state that he returned to Gujarat in April last. He received a rousing welcome on his return and has also hinted at joining politics.<br />Arjun’s cousin Manjita, too, is a serving IPS officer in Gujarat. <br /><br /></p>
