The Anti-Corruption Bureau has booked the chief operating officer of Monorail for allegedly demanding Rs 20 lakh to clear the bills of a private company. Sources said the anti-graft agency tried to catch the COO, Dr DLN Murthy, red-handed but could not succeed. It then registered a case under the Prevention of Corruption Act based on circumstantial evidence, which in this case is an audiotape. Following the ACB case, sources said, Monorail has also launched a departmental enquiry against Murthy.

An ACB officer said, “The team that went to trap him [Murthy] has his recordings of demanding the bribe but he never accepted the money. This is called a non-materialised trap as the acceptance is not there. So based on the recordings, a case of demanding a bribe has been registered against him.”