Chennai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Regional Labour Commissioner (Central) Madurai and a person in an alleged Rs 30,000 bribery case.
A CBI release said that a case was registered against the Regional Labour Commissioner and a resident of Triplicane in Chennai on the allegations that the former was demanding undue advantage from a private person, representing a private company for issuing labour licence.
The CBI officials laid a trap and both the accused were intercepted while exchanging the bribe amount of Rs 30,000. The CBI also conducted searches at five places in Chennai and Madurai.
Both of them were produced in the court of Principal Special Judge for CBI Cases, Chennai and remanded in judicial custody till 4 February.