PURNEA, April 16 -- A 7-member team of Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) from Patna on Thursday arrested Bharat Bhushan, an assistant engineer employed with the Bihar Education Project (BEP), while he was accepting a Rs.10,000 bribe from a contractor. The action followed after the contractor filed a complaint with the SVU, accusing the engineer of pressurising him to release funds for an under-construction school building.

"When I found no way out, I approached the SVU," the contractor, identified as Nandan Kumar Jha, said.

"After verifying complaints, we laid a trap and caught the engineer with a bribe of Rs.10,000 from his house at Shantinagar in the town area falling under the additional Khazanchi Hat police station. Later, the SVU team c...