New Delhi, March 10 The CBI has arrested a chief electrical distribution engineer with the Central Railway and two private individuals in an alleged bribery case involving Rs 10 lakh, officials said on Tuesday.
The central investigative agency had registered the case against the 2003-batch officer of the Indian Railway Services of Electrical Engineers, who was working as a chief electrical distribution engineer with the Central Railway, and others on Monday.
During searches at five locations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Karjat in Maharashtra following the arrests, the CBI seized Rs 90.79 lakh in cash, gold jewellery weighing 241.30 gm, and 2.5 kg of silver jewellery worth Rs 42.52 lakh, along with other investment documents from the engineer's premises, a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
The CBI also seized Rs 3.85 lakh from his office chamber, bringing the total seizure to Rs 1.47 crore, it said.
The FIR alleged that the chief engineer had demanded a bribe of Rs 40 lakh, which was 1 per cent of the tender value of Rs 40.54 crore being awarded to a private company.
"The accused engineer acted in collusion with the stakeholders of the private company in the awarding of the tender. The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused after he accepted a bribe of Rs 10 Lakh from a private individual," the CBI spokesperson said in the statement.
The central agency recovered the bribe amount of Rs 10 lakh from the engineer's chamber, it said.
The accused engineer and two private individuals have been arrested, the spokesperson said.