New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) The CBI has arrested two inspectors of the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), Lucknow, and the owner of a private nursing home in connection with an alleged Rs 10 lakh bribery case on Tuesday, officials said.
The inspectors were allegedly threatening to frame the nursing home owner in a false case, they said.
The CBI arrested Inspectors Mahipal Singh and Ravi Ranjan of CBN Lucknow and owner of a private nursing home Gayasuddin Ahmad hours after registering the FIR.
The agency had acted on information from reliable sources that the inspectors were allegedly indulging in corrupt practices and demanding a bribe from Ahmad by threatening to implicate him in a false case for procuring a restricted drug, they said.
"During the course of subsequent proceedings, Rs 10 lakhs paid as a bribe by the owner of a private nursing Home to the accused officers of the Central Bureau of Narcotics has been recovered," a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.