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JAMMU: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an employee of Power Development Department, Jammu for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 6,000.
FIR was registered against Pawan Kumar working in the office of AEE, PDD sub-division-III Jammu on the allegations of demanding bribe for providing electricity connection and updating records of installed electric meter in the name of the complainant Tanveer Ahmed.
According to details, the complainant had applied for installation of electric meter at his residence in December 2019 and the electric meter was installed but connection to main electric supply was not provided and also name of the complainant was not updated in the records. The complainant contacted the accused and the accused demanded bribe of Rs.6,000 for processing his file.
After his arrest, searches were carried out at the premises of the accused.