Patna: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior official of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for allegedly accepting a bribe in Bihar's Patna. The CGM of NHAI's regional office has been arrested by the police for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from two employees of a private company. Along with this, both the employees of the private company who gave bribes have also been caught.
The CBI reported that a case has been registered against the CGM of NHAI's regional office in this case. At the same time, NHAI's DGM has also been made a criminal in this case. The officer is alleged to have demanded bribes from officials of a private company in Nashik to pay fake bills shown by them. Not only this, but the CBI also raided 8 different places in the case. The CBI has seized cash worth about Rs 60 lakh from these premises of NHAI's CGM. In addition, the search at the locations is still going on.
NHAI"s CGM Sadre Alam is said to have demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a Nashik-based private company. The CBI had a tip related to this, acting on which Sadre Alam has been arrested. The CBI team raided 8 locations linked to Sadre Alam, where Rs 60 lakh cash was found during the search. The CBI has recovered them. The CBI's search operation is still going on, so many other items are suspected to have been recovered. Recently, central investigating agencies like CBI and ED have conducted raids in many cases related to corruption. This ranges from ED raids on the houses of Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee in West Bengal to ED's action in Jharkhand.
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