CBI arrests Meerut Cantt board official in bribery case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said that it has arrested a sanitary overseer of Meerut Cantonment Board for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1,10,000 from a man.

A senior CBI official said that a case was registered against the sanitary overseer identified as Sanjay, on the allegations of demanding a bribe of Rs 1,10,000 from the complainant for contractual recruitment of sweepers.

The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs 1,10,000.Searches were conducted at the office and the residential premises of the accused. He was produced before a special CBI court which sent him to judicial custody.

(IANS)