India News | RPF Personnel Arrested by CBI for Taking Bribe to Allow Shop on Railway Land

Bhubaneswar, May 10 (PTI) The CBI arrested an RPF personnel on the charge of taking a bribe from a person for allowing him to run a shop on railway land in Odisha's Sundergarh district, a statement said on Saturday.

RPF Head Constable Shambhu Prasad Singh, posted at Bimalgarh, was allegedly accepting the bribe when he was nabbed, it said.

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The arrest was made after a case was registered on May 8, alleging that two RPF personnel demanded a bribe from the complainant for allowing him to run his dhaba-cum-barber shop on railway land at Barsuan, the CBI statement said.

The CBI laid a trap and caught one of the accused red-handed while he was allegedly taking the bribe, it said.

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The accused was produced before the CBI special court in Bhubaneswar, and he was sent to judicial custody till May 15.

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