India, Oct. 16 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three persons, including an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer working as deputy director of the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) in an alleged Rs.1 crore bribery case.

The CBI acted after registering a case against Harish Kumar Tanwar, the accused IRS officer working as a deputy director with the SFIO, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Chennai, and a Delhi-based advocate, Bharat Sharma, along with others, on allegations that they had demanded undue advantage of Rs.1 crore from the complainant for allegedly favouring him in an investigation being conducted by the SFIO related to the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) fraud. Tanwar, a 2017 batch...