India, Nov. 6 -- The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) suspended chief engineer Pramod Sudhakar Ombhase and ordered a departmental inquiry against him after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) registered a bribery case and arrested him for allegedly demanding a bribe from a contractor for work related to the water supply department, officials said.

According to the suspension order issued on Wednesday evening, the ACB found that Ombhase allegedly demanded a bribe from the complainant to sign a tender file worth Rs.36 lakh. A case was registered at Sant Tukaram Nagar police station on October 29 under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Ombhase was arrested the same day and later sent to magistrate custody until ...