Srinagar, May 22 -- Jammu and Kashmir Anti-Corruption Bureau on Thursday arrested two government officials red-handed for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe, officials said.

The ACB received a complaint stating that two employees - Ziladar and Patwari - posted in Anantnag Irrigation Division are demanding a bribe of Rs 1,00,000 from him, a spokesman of the ACB said.

He said the officials allegedly demanded a bribe for disposing of an application that had been filed against the complainant regarding the alleged encroachment of government land at Ashajipora near Dabruna, Anantnag.

The spokesperson said the accused Ziladar Nazir Ahmad Wani and Patwari Bilal Ahmad Wagay, both residents of Anantnag, told the complainant that they wou...