India, Sept. 4 -- The Haryana government anti-corruption bureau (ACB) arrested three crime branch officials of Faridabad police for bribery and attempting to extort Rs.1 lakh from a scrap trader after threatening to implicate him in a theft case, said officials on Wednesday.

ACB officials said that the arrested suspects were assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Sanjay Kumar and head constables Mohammad Khalid and Mohammad Farrukh. They said the trio were posted in Sector 65 crime branch unit. The arrests took place on Monday and they were forwarded to judicial custody after production before court on Tuesday.

The ASI was arrested while accepting Rs.25,000 from the trader on Monday after which the two head constables were also arrested when the...