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The agency caught an official red-handed accepting Rs 4 lakh as bribe
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested three customs officials in New Delhi’s Tuglakabad for demanding and accepting bribe from a private firm for allowing consignments.
The three accused - Surendra Singh and Ajeet Kumar, both Superintendents/Senior Intelligence Officers and Sandeep Rathi, Inspector/Intelligence Officer - of the Customs, Import department, Tuglakabad were caught accepting a bribe of Rs 4 lakh.
A case was registered on a complaint against the said public servants. The complainant belonging to a private company had alleged that the accused demanded a bribe of Rs 15 lakh for clearing the consignment of open cells (TV Screens) imported by his company and additional bribe of Rs. 50,000 per container cleared in the last four months.