The CBI on Wednesday said it recovered Rs 2.61 crore in cash during searches at the premises of Principal Chief Material Manager of North Eastern Railway, Gorakhpur, KC Joshi in a bribery case of Rs three lakh. The arrested accused Joshi is a 1988-batch Indian Railway Stores Service (IRSS) officer.
Joshi was arrested on Tuesday evening while allegedly receiving Rs 3 lakh as a bribe from a contractor who is the complainant in the case, officials said.
The contractor had approached the CBI with a complaint that his firm provides products and services to the North Eastern Railways and had received a yearly contract for the supply of three trucks on a contractual basis,
