CBI arrests DDA official on graft charge

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 20

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an official of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Baljeet Rathi Kanoongo for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh from the complainant.       

The agency registered a case on the basis of statement of the complainant under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Kanoongo at Subhash Nagar on the allegations of demanding a bribe of Rs 6 lakh from the complainant for allowing construction on a plot in the Anand Parvat area.

The CBI laid a trap and caught the accused for accepting Rs 2 lakh as part payment from the complainant. 

Searches were conducted at the premises of the accused which led to recovery of Rs 5.5 lakh (approximately).