CBI arrests rly official, 2 others in bribery case

The CBI arrested the chief administrative officer (construction) of the Northeast Frontier Railways on Sunday for allegedly receiving ₹1 crore for granting favours in awarding lucrative contracts to a private company, officials said. Mahender Singh Chauhan was nabbed from Maligaon in Assam’s Guwahati, while two others — Bhupendra Rawat and Indra Singh — were apprehended from Uttarakhand’s Dehradun, where the bribe amount was allegedly delivered on Chauhan’s instructions, they said. The CBI has seized ₹2.14 crore in cash during searches, the officials said.