India, Feb. 20 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested five railway officers, including Sanjay Tiwari, a deputy chief commercial manager working with the Western Railway (WR) at Churchgate, in connection with alleged demand and acceptance of bribes for favouring candidates in an upcoming railway departmental examination.

Searches were conducted at the residential and official premises of the accused persons at 11 locations, including Vadodara, Gujarat, which led to the recovery of a gold bar weighing 650 grams, around Rs.5 lakh in cash, electronic gadgets, and documents.

The arrests were made in Maharashtra and Gujarat after the CBI unearthed a bribery network involving two IRPS (Indian Railway Personnel Service) offic...