New Delhi [India], March 7 (HBTV): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested two persons including the principal at Zonal Railway Training Institute of Central Railway in Bhusawal in an alleged bribery case following searches at locations linked to them, the officials said. 

The arrested persons have been identified as one Suresh Chandra Jain, the principal; and Yogesh A Deshmukh, office superintendent, ZTRI, Bhusawal. 

The CBI registered a case against the principal on a complaint that alleged undue demands. It was alleged that the complainant had received a contract for providing vehicles to the railway for the period May 2023 to May 2025. One of the vehicles under the contract was allegedly deployed for the principal of ZRTI, Bhusawal. 

It was further alleged that the principal used to demand undue advantage for passing monthly bills of the vehicle but the complainant allegedly had not paid.

‘As such, the accused did not sign the log book on time,’ the CBI stated. 

It was also alleged that the contract was terminated in February 2024 but the bill of the firm for the period from January 2024 to February 2024 was pending as the accused had not signed the said log book and demanded INR 5000 for the signature on the log book. 

Further, the accused person allegedly increased the amount of money to INR 10,000 and finally settled for INR 9000, the CBI said. 

The CBI laid a trap and during the proceedings, the accused person directed the complainant to hand over the bribe amount of INR 9000 to a staff member, working as office superintendent, the updates said. 

The office superintendent accepted the bribe and handed it over to the accused principal, it stated. 

"Both were caught and subsequently arrested," officials said. Searches were conducted in the premises of the accused persons.

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