CBI arrests UCO Bank official on graft charge

Acting on a complaint, the CBI sleuths laid a trap and caught the UCO bank senior manager R.N. Prasad red-handed as he took the bribe amount at this office in Munger town, CBI Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) J.N. Mishra said.

The bank official had demanded the money for sanctioning subsidy of Rs five lakh as per the state government norms on a loan of Rs 17 lakh granted to one Gautam Singh, he said.

Singh had subsequently lodged a complaint with the CBI and the agency laid a trap and caught the bank official red-handed while taking the bribe, the CBI ASP said.