CBI arrests Superintendent of Customs, accomplice in bribery case

New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that they have arrested a Superintendent of Customs, posted in Ahmedabad, and his accomplice in connection with a Rs25,000 bribery case.A senior CBI official said that case was registered against the Superintendent, Sunil Menon, on a complaint that the complainant, a partner in a merchant exporter partnership firm, had applied for self-sealing permission for a manufacturing unit and the official had demanded Rs 30,000.The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused and his accomplice Pravin Nanjibhai Waghela while accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000.Searches were conducted at the premises of accused at Ahmedabad and also at Kerala which led to the recovery of curtails documents including details of property.
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