The CBI on Thursday arrested a Military Engineer Services (MES) Junior Engineer for accepting a bribe of Rs 30,000. In a separate case, the agency arrested three GST officials in a graft case of Rs 5 lakh.
The MES Junior Engineer Rajiv Ranjan Reddy was posted at Paradeep (Odisha) and was nabbed while demanding and accepting the bribe from the complainant, officials said.
The agency has registered a case under various Sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act on a complaint alleging that the accused official demanded a bribe of Rs 30,000 from complainant’s relative for forwarding bio-data of six persons of the complainant’s firm to the Office of GE (I), MES, Bhubaneswar for formal approval relating to the Work Order in favour of victim firm. The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while demanding and accepting the bribe amount from the complainant.
Searches at the office and residence of the accused officials were conducted leading to recovery of incriminating documents, the agency said.
In the GST graft case, the agency arrested two Superintendents and one Inspector, all working in the office of Commissioner, Central Goods & Service Tax, Central Excise, Belgaum (Karnataka) in an alleged bribery case