India, March 15 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Pune region arrested three engineers from the Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) on Thursday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from a government contractor.

The accused have been identified as Baburao Krushna Pawar (57), executive engineer (Class 1); Dattatreya Bhagwanrao Pathare (55), deputy engineer (Class 1) and Anjali Pramod Bagade, junior engineer (Class 3), all are associated with the constitution department of the Pune ZP.

According to ACB officials, the complainant is a government contractor and got a work order for the construction of two roads in Daund tehsil. After the compilation of work, the complainant submitted bills worth Rs.40 lakh.

However, to release the bill, acc...