SURAT: Sleuths of anti-corruption bureau (ACB) nabbed joint general manager (engineering and civil) of Airports Authority of India (AAI) at Surat airport for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs30,000 from a contractor on Thursday. The accused had demanded commission for clearing a bill of annual maintenance contract of the complainant at Surat airport. The accused officer has been nabbed 12 days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to officially launch international air service from the city airport.Radha Raman Gupta, a class I officer of AAI, was nabbed by ACB sleuths while allegedly accepting the bribe from the complainant in his office at Surat airport. Gupta was posted at Surat airport in February 2018.The accused had demanded two per cent (Rs30,000) of the Rs15 lakh bill of annual maintenance work at the airport from the complainant when he put up the same for clearance. The complainant approached ACB when the accused continued to demand bribe from him.The accused had asked the complainant to come to his office with the money on Thursday and a trap was laid by ACB police inspector B K Vanaar. The accused came to check out twice before accepting the bribe if he was being trapped. He asked the complainant to keep the money in his bag and leave. ACB officers, who were dressed as labourers, immediately nabbed Gupta.“Soon after the trap, ACB conducted searches at Gupta’s residence in Vesu of Surat and his permanent house in Ahmedabad. The searches are being carried out by different teams of ACB,” said N P Gohil, in-charge assistant director of ACB.

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