<p class="title">The CBI has arrested two senior railway officials for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a contractor for clearing his bills, officials said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Neeraj Puri Goswami, Senior Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer (Sr. DSTE), and P.K. Singh, Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer (DSTE) have been arrested on the basis of a complaint from the contractor, they said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The two officers are posted in North Central Railway, Allahabad.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is alleged that they demanded a bribe of Rs five lakh each from the contractor in a tender work amounting to Rs 1.43 crore allotted to his firm in March 2017, which was still underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They allegedly threatened to terminate the tender on the count of the slow progress of work, if he did not put his signature on the measurement book, a periodical record of work done, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency arrested the two and also recovered documents related to their assets during searches, they said.</p>
<p class="title">The CBI has arrested two senior railway officials for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from a contractor for clearing his bills, officials said on Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Neeraj Puri Goswami, Senior Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer (Sr. DSTE), and P.K. Singh, Divisional Signal and Telecom Engineer (DSTE) have been arrested on the basis of a complaint from the contractor, they said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The two officers are posted in North Central Railway, Allahabad.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is alleged that they demanded a bribe of Rs five lakh each from the contractor in a tender work amounting to Rs 1.43 crore allotted to his firm in March 2017, which was still underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">They allegedly threatened to terminate the tender on the count of the slow progress of work, if he did not put his signature on the measurement book, a periodical record of work done, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agency arrested the two and also recovered documents related to their assets during searches, they said.</p>