LUCKNOW, March 29 -- The Major-rank army officer, who is posted as Garrison engineer at Military Engineering Services (MES) in Prayagraj, and assistant Garrison engineer were booked for demanding and accepting a bribe from a Delhi firm in exchange for allowing the start of the allotted manpower outsourcing supply contract, said senior police officials here on Saturday.

They said the CBI has registered an FIR against the two officers, Major Ravi Singh, the Garrison engineer and Vimal Kumar, the assistant Garrison engineer (contract), under Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) Section 61(2) for criminal conspiracy, offenses related to public servants being bribed and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act at its Anti-Corruption Bureau of CBI...