CBI arrests BCAS official for graft

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 11

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today said that it had arrested an assistant director of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) Umesh Kumar Verma, posted in Jammu & Kashmir, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a complainant.

A case was registered against Verma on the allegations of demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000 for granting entry passes to the employees of the complainant, who were engaged in providing manpower services at the Jammu airport.

“The accused was allegedly pressurising and harassing the complainant to pay the bribe and when the complainant refused to do so, his application was rejected,” the CBI alleged in its FIR, which was registered under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Following the complaint, the Central Bureau of Investigation laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while accepting the bribe from the complainant.

After the arrest of Verma, the CBI sleuths carried out searches at residential and official premises of the accused in Srinagar (J&K) and Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh.