Mangalore: A Commercial Tax Officer, Somashekhar, was caught red-handed this afternoon at 1 pm by Lokayukta police for accepting a bribe at his office near PWD complex in city.

The vat tax assistant commissioner has been identified as Somashekhar, when the officials conducted raid at commercial tax office.
It is said that Somashekhar has demanded the amount of Rs 2000 as the bribe from Manoj to allot him the TIN number and certificate of registration. Acting as directed by the lokayukta officials, Manoj handed over the money to Somashekar and was trapped by the officials
Lokayukta Police team was led by Jagamayyanavar Sadananda, Superintendent of Police Lokayukta, the officials like Sadananda Varnekar, Circle Inspector of Police, Lokayukta, Uday Nayak, Circle Inspector of police Lokayukta participated in the operation.