India, Nov. 13 -- A 55-year-old additional sessions judge of the Civil Sessions Court in Mazgaon was booked and his clerk-cum-typist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly demanding and accepting a Rs.15-lakh bribe from a businessman in exchange for a favourable order in a land dispute case.

According to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the clerk, Chandrakant Vasudev, 40, allegedly approached the complainant claiming he could secure a judgment in his favour. He initially demanded Rs.25 lakh - Rs.10 lakh for himself and Rs.15 lakh for the judge, Aejazuddin Kazi, who presides over the 14th court in Mazgaon.

The complainant, whose wife's company's land was allegedly encroached upon in 2015, had earlier moved the Bombay High Court, which in...