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The CBI has arrested 2 officials of the Archaeological Survey of India for allegedly taking bribe to revoke an authoritative announcement and allowing continuation of work, officials said connected Friday (April 3, 2026).
The bureau said a monument attendant and a conservation adjunct posted astatine the ASI's Sub-Circle astatine Jantar Mantar were booked aft a ailment that the erstwhile had demanded "illegal gratification/undue vantage of ₹3,50,000 connected behalf of the accused conservation adjunct from the complainant for revoking the notice" and allowing him to proceed the work.
Following negotiations, the accused agreed to judge ₹3.10 lakh and directed the complainant to wage ₹1 lakh arsenic portion payment, a connection said.
Acting connected the complaint, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) laid a trap connected April 1 and caught the monument attendant "red-handed, portion demanding and accepting the amerciable gratification/undue vantage of ₹1,00,000 from the complainants arsenic portion outgo of the demanded bribe of ₹3.10 lakh." During the operation, "the relation of the conservation assistant, Archaeological Survey of India, Sub-Circle-Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, besides surfaced," pursuing which some officials were arrested, the bureau said.
In a abstracted case, the bureau besides arrested a inferior technologist and a Beldar of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Shahdara North Zone for allegedly demanding a bribe of ₹80,000 from a complainant to debar demolition action.
