India, May 25 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday arrested a doctor for allegedly taking a bribe for issuing a favourable inspection report to a private medical college in Karnataka, the agency said in a statement.

Dr Tapan Kumar Jana, head of the anatomy department at West Bengal's Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital is an assessor of the National Medical Commission (NMC), the statement said.

"CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed immediately after he accepted a bribe of Rs.10 lakh from representatives of the private medical college based in Belgavi, Karnataka. Later, the accused senior doctor was arrested," the statement said.

The federal agency statement said that a case was registered on Saturd...