Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday caught a Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) engineer red-handed while he was taking bribe from a businessman in Narayanganj, reports UNB.

The arrested bribe-taker is identified as a deputy assistant engineer of LGED, Ehtashamul Haque.

ACC conducted the drive based on a specific complaint by Mozammel Haque, a contractor of the LGRD office at Sonargaon Upazilla under Narayanganj District, ACC public relation officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee told the news agency.

A team led by Nasimi Anwar, one of the directors of ACC, arrested Ehtashamul Haque with bribe money of Tk 50,000 from his workplace at around 3 pm.

ACC officials said the LGED engineer took the bribe for favouring the contractor to get a tender.  Filing of a case against the official was underway.