CBI arrests a junior engineer in Mumbai in a bribery case of Rs. 4.5 lakhs

New Delhi, June 6

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a junior engineer from Mumbai for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs. 4.5 lakh from the complainant. 

The officials said a case was registered against the said accused on the basis of written complaint that the accused  demanded bribe of Rs. 5.5 Lakh  from the complainant for clearing the pending bills of his firm and after negotiation finally he agreed to accept Rs. 4.50 lakhs. 

The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed on June 5 while accepting bribe of Rs. 4.5 lakh. 

The agency also conducted searches at the residential and official premises of the accused at Mumbai and Roorkee.