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COIMBATORE: Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sleuths arrested a deputy registrar and a sub-registrar with the cooperative department on Friday night for accepting a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh from the secretary of Dhalavaipalayam Primary Agriculture Credit Society in connection with farm loan wavier.
An investigation officer said Sivaji, secretary, Dhalavaipalayam Primary Agriculture Credit Society, had approached them when Selvaraja, 41, deputy registrar of cooperative department at Mahalingapuram in Pollachi and Arumugam, 36, sub registrar at Anaimalai threatened to issue summons to him and not to wave agricultural loans of 17 members of the society if he didn’t pay a bribe of Rs 1.25 lakh.