Kolkata Port Trust chairman arrested for taking bribes
According to reports, Anti-Corruption wing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday evening had caught KPT chairman and IAS officer K. P. S. Kahlon red-handed from a hotel at Esplanade area in central Kolkata, while he was taking bribe from a person.
Few lakh rupees were also recovered from his possession.
After he was being questioned for few hours by the CBI and Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) jointly, Kahlon was arrested at night for his role in corruption.
Another person, who was identified as the director of a private company, was also booked for paying a government official bribe.
Around 20 lakh rupees, which were being transacted then as bribe, were also seized from them.
However, cases have been registered against them in New Market Police Station.
The duo is likely to be produced to a city court on Thursday.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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