DHANBAD, March 8 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on late Friday evening arrested a senior railway engineer of the Dhanbad division of East Central Railway while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 inside the Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) office premises.

The accused, identified as senior divisional electrical engineer Sanjeev Kumar, was caught red-handed by a CBI special team following a trap laid on the basis of a complaint lodged by a railway contractor.

The complainant contractor, Avijit Jha, had carried out supply and installation of electrical equipment for the railways. The work was reportedly valued at around Rs.45 lakh. The contractor alleged that the accused engineer had been demanding a bribe for clearing ...