Jammu, March 28 -- Two government officials - a forester and a forest guard - were arrested after they were caught red-handed taking a bribe in Rajouri district on Friday, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said.

The duo was caught after the ACB laid a trap following a complaint by a local alleging that Forester Ajaz Ahmed and Forest Guard Mohammad Zaman had demanded money to allow him to construct a septic tank and an underground water tank near his house.

On March 13, he said Zaman visited the complainant and stopped him from the digging work, on the pretext that the land falls under the Forest department.

The complainant told him that that was his own land, but he did not agree, an ACB spokesperson said, adding that the official deman...