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Mumbai | Undercoer Editor News Agency | November 13, 2025.<\/strong>
In a major anti-corruption crackdown, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) <\/strong>on Tuesday arrested Chandrakant Vasudev (40),<\/strong> a clerk at the Mazgaon City Civil and Sessions Court<\/strong>, for allegedly accepting a \u20b915 lakh bribe <\/strong>from a Bandra-based businessman to secure a favourable court order in a property dispute.<\/p>\n

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The ACB has also named Additional Sessions Judge Aejazuddin S. Kazi (55)<\/strong> in the FIR, <\/strong>showing him as \u201cwanted\u201d in the ongoing investigation<\/p>\n

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Rs 25 lakh bribe demand \u2013 Rs 15 lakh for judge, Rs 10 lakh for clerk<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to ACB officials, the accused clerk initially demanded a total of \u20b925 lakh \u2014 \u20b915 lakh allegedly meant for the judge and \u20b910 lakh for himself. After negotiations, the amount was brought down to \u20b915 lakh. Vasudev was later caught red-handed <\/strong>while accepting the money and has been remanded to five days\u2019 custody.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Judge named after call during ACB trap<\/strong><\/p>\n

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ACB Assistant Commissioner of Police Manisha Zende<\/strong> confirmed that Judge Kazi\u2019s name was added to the FIR after the clerk, upon receiving the bribe, called the judge to inform him<\/strong> that the money had been collected.<\/p>\n

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\u201cVasudev was caught while accepting the bribe after assuring the complainant that the order would be passed in his favour. The judge has been named and further investigation is underway,\u201d ACP Zende stated.<\/p>\n

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Case linked to Bandra property dispute<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The case revolves around a property in Bandra<\/strong> owned by the businessman\u2019s wife\u2019s company, which was allegedly encroached upon by another party. The dispute was earlier being heard in the Bombay High Court,<\/strong> which stayed proceedings in 2016 since the property\u2019s value was below \u20b910 crore. In March 2024, <\/strong>the case was transferred to the Mazgaon City Civil and Sessions Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On September 9, 2025<\/strong>, when the matter came up for hearing, Vasudev allegedly contacted the complainant, asking him to meet at a caf\u00e9 in Chembur<\/strong>. During their meeting on September 1<\/strong>2, the clerk reportedly demanded \u20b925 lakh, stating that a favourable order could be \u201cmanaged\u201d through the judge.<\/p>\n

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ACB lays trap and arrests clerk<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Following multiple follow-up calls from the clerk, the businessman approached the ACB Worli office on November 10 <\/strong>and lodged a formal complaint. The bureau verified the claim and laid a trap the next day.
On November 11<\/strong>, Vasudev was caught red-handed<\/strong> while accepting the \u20b915 lakh bribe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImmediately after taking the cash, Vasudev contacted the judge to inform him that the amount had been received. Based on this, both were booked under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act,\u201d <\/strong>an ACB officer said.<\/p>\n

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The ongoing probe is being supervised by Inspector Sunit Dighe<\/strong> under the guidance of Assistant Commissioner of Police Pravin Navadkar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mumbai Bribery Case: Court Clerk Arrested Taking \u20b915 Lakh Bribe; Judge Named in FIR as ACB Launches Probe Anti-Corruption Bureau officials arrest court clerk in Mumbai bribery case; judge under ACB scanner in \u20b915 lakh bribe scandal. Mumbai | Undercoer Editor News Agency | November 13, 2025.In a major anti-corruption crackdown, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested Chandrakant Vasudev (40), a clerk at the Mazgaon City Civil and Sessions Court, for allegedly accepting a \u20b915 lakh bribe from a Bandra-based businessman to secure a favourable court order in a property dispute. The ACB has also named Additional Sessions Judge Aejazuddin S. Kazi (55) in the FIR, showing him as \u201cwanted\u201d in the ongoing investigation Rs 25 lakh bribe demand \u2013 Rs 15 lakh for judge, Rs 10 lakh for clerk According to ACB officials, the accused clerk initially demanded a total of \u20b925 lakh \u2014 \u20b915 lakh allegedly meant for the judge and \u20b910 lakh for himself. After negotiations, the amount was brought down to \u20b915 lakh. Vasudev was later caught red-handed while accepting the money and has been remanded to five days\u2019 custody. Judge named after call during ACB trap ACB Assistant Commissioner of Police Manisha Zende confirmed that Judge Kazi\u2019s name was added to the FIR after the clerk, upon receiving the bribe, called the judge to inform him that the money had been collected. \u201cVasudev was caught while accepting the bribe after assuring the complainant that the order would be passed in his favour. The judge has been named and further investigation is underway,\u201d ACP Zende stated. Case linked to Bandra property dispute The case revolves around a property in Bandra owned by the businessman\u2019s wife\u2019s company, which was allegedly encroached upon by another party. The dispute was earlier being heard in the Bombay High Court, which stayed proceedings in 2016 since the property\u2019s value was below \u20b910 crore. In March 2024, the case was transferred to the Mazgaon City Civil and Sessions Court. On September 9, 2025, when the matter came up for hearing, Vasudev allegedly contacted the complainant, asking him to meet at a caf\u00e9 in Chembur. During their meeting on September 12, the clerk reportedly demanded \u20b925 lakh, stating that a favourable order could be \u201cmanaged\u201d through the judge. ACB lays trap and arrests clerk Following multiple follow-up calls from the clerk, the businessman approached the ACB Worli office on November 10 and lodged a formal complaint. The bureau verified the claim and laid a trap the next day.On November 11, Vasudev was caught red-handed while accepting the \u20b915 lakh bribe. \u201cImmediately after taking the cash, Vasudev contacted the judge to inform him that the amount had been received. Based on this, both were booked under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act,\u201d an ACB officer said. The ongoing probe is being supervised by Inspector Sunit Dighe under the guidance of Assistant Commissioner of Police Pravin Navadkar.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,182],"tags":[183,187,107,185,184,186,81,85],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-briberycase","tag-acb","tag-anticorruption","tag-breakingnews","tag-bribreycase","tag-corruption","tag-courtscandal","tag-mumbai-news","tag-undercovereditor-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undercovereditor.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}