The Mumbai unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) laid a trap in a moving local train on Friday and caught an accused while he was taking a bribe. The accused, Sunil Nikam, 43, a MHADA estate manager, had demanded a bribe of Rs 25,000 from a complainant.

According to ACB officials, the complainant had purchased a room in a MHADA building at Girgaum and had applied for transfer of this room in his name with the MHADA office Zone II, situated at Tardeo, where the accused worked.

Nikam demanded a bribe of Rs 25,000 to do the needful, and asked the complainant to bring the money on Friday evening. The complainant agreed to do so, but also approached the ACB, which laid a trap.

An ACB official said, "The complainant was asked to come outside the Tardeo office. But the money transaction did not happen there as expected. Nikam got suspicious and took the complainant to Mumbai Central railway station. We followed them." Upon reaching the spot, they took a train to Churchgate and were being followed by ACB sleuths. "We were in the same compartment as them. Between Marine Drive and Churchgate station, Nikam asked the complainant for the money. We caught the accused red-handed in the moving train while he was accepting the bribe, and got him to Churchgate station at 7pm," said the officer. Nikam has been arrested under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.