CBI traps Modi's man accepting Rs 10 lakh bribe

March 31, 2014 12:52

In a big embarrassment to BJP's prime ministerial candidate the CBI on Saturday arrested Ganesh Malviya, the co-convener of Narendra Modi's election cell.

He was caught along with his wife, Poonam Rai, deputy commissioner of income tax, while accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh.

When CBI laid a trap for Malviya, the agency, ironically, was acting on a complaint of another state BJP leader, Rajesh Bhadoria, convener of cultural cell of the state BJP unit.

Malviya's wife, an IRS officer, had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 25 lakh from Bhadoria, who also owns Ramayan Constructions, to correct discrepancies in his firm's I-T returns, a CBI official said.

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