mysuru in less than three weeks the anticorruption bureau has caught five class 1 officers and an asi redhanded while accepting bribe for official work in the five districts of mysuru division while two officers were nabbed in mysuru district one officer each was trapped by acb in hassan kodagu chamarajanagar and mandya districts the latest was the arrest of a deputy tahsildar on wednesday for taking a bribe of rs 10000 before that an assistant sub inspector of police was nabbed in mandya an engineer too was raided for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income in mandya initially an education department officer overseeing midday meal scheme was caught on a train soon after taking rs 15000 to give a positive report about the implementation of the scheme at an hd kote school on october 4 secondly a tahsildar was trapped while receiving a last part of bribe money of rs 2000 at his office on october 11 he had demanded money from the complainant in connection with land conversion later a professor in obg attached to hassan institute of medical sciences was caught for demanding rs 5000 for a surgery on october 16 the very next day the acb in chamarajanagar trapped an aee of city municipal council for seeking rs 20000 for tenderrelated work on october 21 an asi of kr pet police station was arrested while accepting a bribe of rs 22000 he had demanded money to provide security to carryout a surveyin the mysuru and chamarajanagar cases the acb personnel waited for days as the officials delayed in accepting the bribe and changed venues to avoid any traps the official in mysuru had changed venue and then asked the complainant to handover money inside a train but was caught even the officer in chamarajanagar delayed for days before he was caught the acb personnel did not lose patience and ensured that the erring officials get trapped it wouldnt have been possible without the support of complainants they said successful trapping of government officials in southern district of karnataka in october has created a sort of fear among government officials in the region but the agency feels that still people are not willing to knock on the doors of anticorruption agency to complain about corrupt practices