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India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has busted two separate bribery cases, leading to the arrests of key officials in Gujarat and Maharashtra. The agency announced the developments on Friday, highlighting ongoing efforts to tackle corruption in government sectors.
In the first case, a auditor with the Integrated Financial Advisor (IFA) office under the Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) in Gandhinagar faced charges. A private company owner complained that the official demanded a Rs 4 lakh bribe—about 2% of a Rs 2.5 crore contract for installing CCTV systems at an Air Force base in Pune—to approve and issue the supply order.
CBI agents set up a trap on September 30 and caught the accused red-handed accepting Rs 3.5 lakh in cash. They arrested him right away, got a transit remand from a special judge in Ahmedabad, and presented him before a special judge in Pune. The court sent him to police custody until October 4.
The second case targeted a chief office superintendent at the Divisional Railway Hospital in Nanded, Maharashtra. Filed on September 29, it involved the official allegedly asking for a Rs 25,000 bribe from an employee of a private firm. The money was supposedly needed to process a pending Rs 91,575 bill and release a Rs 1.25 lakh performance guarantee linked to a housekeeping and cleaning contract.
CBI teams laid another trap and nabbed the suspect at his home in Nanded while he took Rs 20,000 as bribe money.
Officers also searched the homes and offices of both accused individuals earlier in the probes. The investigations into these defence and railway bribery allegations continue, as the CBI works to uncover more details on government corruption in India.
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