coimbatore two tasmac salesmen were caught taking a bribe of rs 70000 on wednesday night from the manager of the bar attached to their outlet by threatening to cancel his licence if he didnt oblige to their demand of selling liquor at a higher price a sleuth attached to the directorate of vigilance and anticorruption dvac identified the accused as lenin 43 of podhanur and saravanan 50 of palathurai the officer said the duo had approached the bar manager vinoth asking him to sell the tasmac outlets liquor bottles at a higher price and demanding a monthly payout of rs 70000 when vinoth refused they threatened to tarnish the name of the bar amid the customers and cancel the bars licencevinoth lodged a complaint with dvac sleuths who gave him chemicalcoated currency notes amounting to rs 70000 which they asked him to hand over to the duo around 10pm on wednesday we arrested them while accepting the money the officer saiddvac sleuths also checked the stock register at the outlet and seized rs 8600 unaccounted cash they made the money by selling liquor bottles at a higher price at the outlet itself the officer said since the salesmen were under the purview of government employees section 7a of the prevention of corruption act 1988 was invoked they were produced before a judicial magistrate who remanded them in judicial custody we have lodged them in pollachi subjail public can contact us at 04222449550 for corruptionrelated complaints the officer said