{"id":185959,"date":"2025-10-18T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=185959"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:34:06","slug":"india-cbi-arrests-senior-highway-official-while-accepting-rs-10-lakh-bribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/10\/18\/india-cbi-arrests-senior-highway-official-while-accepting-rs-10-lakh-bribe.html","title":{"rendered":"India: CBI arrests senior highway official while accepting Rs 10 lakh bribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-185960\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-18-at-18.38.41.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-18-at-18.38.41.jpeg 397w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-18-at-18.38.41-150x220.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-18-at-18.38.41-320x470.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/>New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the executive director and regional officer of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in India&#8217;s Guwahati while accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe from a private contractor.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, during searches at Riten Kumar Singh&#8217;s office and house in Guwahati, Ghaziabad, and Imphal, the agency also recovered Rs 2.62 crore in cash and substantial assets and documents pointing to large-scale undisclosed wealth.<\/p>\n<p>The documents are related to ownership and investments in multiple high-value properties across the country. These include nine apartments, an office space, and three residential plots in Delhi-NCR, an apartment and a residential plot in Bengaluru, and four apartments and two residential plots in Guwahati.<\/p>\n<p>Further records revealed the acquisition of two plots and an agricultural land in Imphal West, possession of six high-end luxury vehicles, two luxury watches, and a 100-gram silver bar.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI&#8217;s preliminary investigations indicate that several assets purchased in the name of the accused and his family members appear to be undervalued and are being verified.<\/p>\n<p>A case was registered based on credible source information against the accused officer and two representatives of a private company, officials said. Acting on this input, the CBI laid a trap on October 14 and caught Singh while accepting the bribe.<\/p>\n<p>The payment was made in return for issuing favourable Extension of Time and Completion Certificates for contracts awarded to the private company.<\/p>\n<p>A local court has sent both the accused to three days of police custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the executive director and regional officer of the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) in India&#8217;s Guwahati while accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe from a private contractor. According to Kashmir Media Service, during searches at Riten Kumar Singh&#8217;s office and house &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":185960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-10-18-at-18.38.41.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185961,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185959\/revisions\/185961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}