NEW DELHI, Oct 27: The CBI today arrested a project manager of the National Highways Authority of India and another person for allegedly seeking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh for regularising a roadside eatery in Tamil Nadu, an agency spokesperson said today.
The spokesperson said that one M Rayar owned a 6,000-sq feet land at Poonthottam village in the Villupuram district adjacent to NH-45 which was rented out for the last six months for running a restaurant.
NHAI Project Director H Bhima Simha issued a notice calling the restaurant unauthorised and directed it be removed, a CBI FIR in the case alleged.
It said that Rayar had applied for regularising the eatery and remitted necessary charges of Rs 1.60 lakh through a demand draft in the favour of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in August.
After not getting any response, he met Simha who allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh for giving permission, it alleged.
Rayar approached the CBI as he did not want to pay the bribe, it said.
The agency laid a trap and arrested Simha and a private person while they were receiving the alleged bribe money, the CBI spokesperson said. (PTI)
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