KATHMANDU: Senior Divisional Engineer at Water Resources and Irrigation Development Division Office, Bhojpur, Mohanbabu Yadav, has been arrested red-handed with a bribe.

He was arrested from a team deployed from the Itahari-based office of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) with Rs 180,000 kickback he had taken from a service seeker.

CIAA Spokesperson Pradeep Kumar Koirala said that the anti-graft body was carrying out further investigation on him.