CBI arrests railway officials over alleged bribes for processing company bills

The CBI has arrested five North Western Railway officials and two private company employees in separate bribery cases in Jaipur and Bikaner. The agency recovered bribe amounts during trap operations and seized Rs 9 lakh during searches linked to one case

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested five officials of the North Western Railway (NWR) from Rajasthan’s Jaipur and Bikaner in separate cases of bribery and recovered Rs 2 lakh from them, an official spokesperson said on Friday. The arrests were made on Thursday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson said in a statement.

The agency alleged that the office superintendent at NWR, Jaipur, was allegedly indulging in corrupt practices, accepting bribes for processing and passing of bills for the work being executed by a Navi Mumbai-based company.

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“During the trap operation, office superintendent, NWR, Jaipur; assistant financial advisor, NWR, Jaipur; Sr. SO, NWR, Jaipur; and an employee of the Navi Mumbai-based private company were arrested on 13.08.2026 and a bribe amount of Rs 1.46 lakh was recovered,” the spokesperson said.

The agency also seized Rs 9 lakh during its searches in connection with the case in Jaipur and Delhi. In a separate case, the agency has arrested a senior section officer and an account assistant of NWR, Bikaner, and an employee of a Kolkata-based private company. A bribe amount of Rs 1.20 lakh was also recovered, the CBI said. It alleged that the officers took the bribe for quick processing of the company’s bills.