The CBI has arrested two senior section engineers of the Western Railway for allegedly demanding and accepting an alleged bribe of Rs5 lakh through cheques.
Identifying the two arrested railway officers as Dilip T Khaire and Shakindra S lokhande, both senior section officers, EMU Workshop, Western Railway, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, a CBI spokesperson said on Tuesday that the investigating agency officials caught the two officers red-handed while allegedly accepting bribe through cheques from the complainant.
The accused officers had allegedly demanded and obtained bribe from the complainant for allegedly showing undue favour in a departmental examination.
After the arrest, the CBI officials conducted searches at the residences of the two arrested officers.
The arrested accused were produced before a Special CBI court, which remanded them in the agency’s custody for two days.