Man arrested for posing as CBI officer, demanding Rs 20 lakh from railway engineer

The CBI has arrested a man for allegedly demanding Rs 20 lakh from a senior railway engineer by posing as an officer of the agency probing cases against him, officials said on Friday.

The engineer had approached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) claiming that Sadiq Qureshi was demanding Rs 20 lakh as bribe from him, they said.

The agency laid a trap and Qureshi was arrested while taking Rs 1 lakh of the bribe money from the senior divisional mechanical engineer posted in Nagpur, the officials said.