NEW DELHI: The CBI has caught red-handed an official of Central Council of Indian Medicine, which works under the Union Ayush Ministry, while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 10 lakh from official of a Maharashtra-based private college for clearing proposal to increase its admission capacity from 60 to 100, officials said.
Upper division clerk B K Basavaraju, posted at the Council officer here, was arrested while he was receiving the alleged bribe from Anjana Kedari Redekar of Late Kedari Redekar Ayurvedic Mahavidyalaya in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, officials said.
Redekar has also been named as an accused in the FIR.
The college had applied for obtaining LOP (Letter of Permission) from the Ministry for increasing its admission capacity from 60 candidates to 100 candidates which is processed through the council, they said. (AGENCIES)
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