CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe

TNN | Dec 30, 2011, 04.12AM IST

JAIPUR: The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service were working at the Command Works Engineer there, CBI sources said.

Acting on the basis of an anonymous complainant, who is a contractor engaged in engineering works of the Army, the CBI laid a trap in which Colonel R K Bansal was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

"The army officer had asked the contractor to pay the bribe money at the highway near Abohar in Sriganganagar. While he was accepting the bribe, we caught him," DSP Y K Sharma said.

Major Anindya Roy was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 at his office in Srigananagar.

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