JAMMU, Aug 7: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested three persons, including a revenue department official, for demanding and accepting a bribe in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, officials said.
The CBI registered a case based on a complaint against a property dealer from Jib village in Udhampur, alleging that the dealer was demanding a bribe of Rs 40,000 on behalf of a patwari for the issuance of a revenue extract of a property being purchased by the complainant’s father, said a CBI spokesman.
The CBI laid a trap and the property dealer, a middleman, and the Patwari were caught in a relay-trap operation, he added.
