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Bihar: Bank officer arrested on graft charge

| @indiablooms | May 31, 2019, at 04:31 pm

Banka, May 31 (UNI) Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today caught assistant manager of UCO Bank Sahebganj branch red handed when he was accepting bribe of Rs 5,000 under Belhar police station area in the district.

Sources at CBI said that a trap was laid on UCO Bank`s assistant manager Santosh Kumar when a hardware shop owner Ramji Prabhakar, a native of Sahebganj Bazar lodged a complaint against him. Sources said Prabhakar had informed CBI that the bank officer was demanding bribe equivalent to 10 per cent of Rs 3 lakh loan for releasing it.

Sources said that bank officer was arrested when he was accepting bribe of Rs 5,000 from Mr Prabhakar at branch. 

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