Kannur Corporation sacks engineer on bribery charge

The Kannur Corporation dismissed a temporary assistant engineer from service pending inquiry after he was arrested by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) while allegedly accepting a bribe.Mayor P. Indira issued the order following his remand by the Thalassery Vigilance Court.P. Mohammed Aslam, a contract employee posted at the Corporation’s Edakkad zonal office, was caught on Monday evening (July 27) while allegedly accepting the first installment of a ₹20,000 bribe demanded for processing a building permit application submitted by a property owner from Koodali.The complainant alleged that the building permit application had been kept pending for over 10 months before Aslam demanded the bribe. Acting on the complaint, the Vigilance set a trap and reportedly caught the official