Chandigarh, July 24 -- A special CBI court in Chandigarh on Thursday sent an enforcement officer of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Patiala, to 14 days of judicial custody. The officer had been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly being caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs.2.5 lakh from a complainant during a trap laid by the agency.

According to the remand application, the accused, Shubham Tyagi, was arrested in connection with a case registered under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018).

The CBI stated that the FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint submitted a day earlier by Harshit Jindal. After verification of the allegations,...