India, Oct. 18 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested an assistant registrar and inspector at the Registrar of Companies (ROC) in Pune on Wednesday, accusing him of demanding and accepting a bribe from a Mumbai-based firm.

Ajay Pawar, a 2016 batch officer of the Indian Corporate Law Service, was apprehended in his office during a sting operation as he allegedly received Rs.3 lakh, the remainder of a Rs.6 lakh bribe he had demanded from the director of a Mumbai company. The payment was reportedly in exchange for favourable treatment in an ongoing ROC inquiry against the firm.

According to the CBI, Pawar had previously accepted Rs.3 lakh as partial payment on October 7. The complainant stated that Pawar initially demanded R...