The CBI has arrested two officials of the rank of Havildar in Army in an alleged bribery case of `50,000 and a Gazetted officer of the Indian Air Force in a separate graft case.

A case was registered on complaint against two Army officials Susant Nahak and Naveen from Southern Command, Pune.

The complainant was selected to the post of multi-tasking staff (MTS) in the  Army Ordnance Corps., Pune and  was to join at Ordnance factory, Wardha (Maharashtra) on or before November 19, 2021 along with the original call letter. Under the pretext of early joining formalities, the accused took the original call letter of the complainant and demanded a bribe of `2.5 lakh and agreed to accept the initial amount of `50,000.

An amount of `30,000 was transferred by the complainant through Phonepe to the account of one accused. Subsequently, both the accused allegedly came for accepting the remaining amount of ` 20,000.

The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused while demanding and accepting the bribe amount. Searches were conducted at the premises of the accused at Pune which led to recovery of incriminating documents relating to the case. Both the accused were produced before the Court of Special Judge, CBI cases, Pune and were remanded to five-day police custody.

In another case, CBI has arrested a Civilian Gazetted officer of Indian Airforce, Lohegaon, Pune, Suryakant Sangale for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 4000 as initial installment from the complainant..

A case was registered on complaint against Sangale. It was alleged that the accused demanded undue advantage of `50,000 from the complainant to consider his mutual transfer request to Dehu Road, Pune.