India, June 6 -- In the district administration's crackdown against middlemen charging people money for facilitating official work, police arrested a man near Jewar on Thursday, officials said on Friday.

Officials said the move follows a complaint received during a public grievance hearing, which alleged that an elderly woman was charged money for securing benefits under a widow pension scheme.

According to officials, district magistrate Medha Roopam took cognisance of the complaint and initiated a verification exercise. As part of the inquiry, Roopam contacted the suspected middleman over the phone while posing as an applicant seeking assistance in obtaining benefits under the pension scheme.

During the conversation, the individual al...