Chandigarh, Oct. 9 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Shakti Sharma, a sanitary inspector with the Chandigarh municipal corporation's health department, for allegedly accepting a Rs.5 lakh bribe from a contractor. A local court on Thursday remanded him to judicial custody till October 22.

The CBI registered an FIR on October 7 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, against Sharma on the basis of a written complaint dated October 5 by contractor Prashant Bhadauria and a verification report submitted by a CBI sub-inspector on October 7.

According to the CBI, Sharma allegedly demanded Rs.14 lakh from Bhadauria for processing and clearing pending and future bills of his firm. He allegedly threatene...