India, Feb. 13 -- The Mumbai unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested a senior official of the National Statistical Survey Office (NSSO) for allegedly demanding and obtaining a bribe of Rs.10,000 from a businessman, falsely claiming he had helped the latter submitting returns for the Annual Survey for Industries (ASI) for two firms.

The accused officer, Shankar Raghorte, a senior statistical officer at NSSO in Belapur, allegedly harassed the complainant to pay a bribe to his wife's account via Google Pay.

The complainant is a director at a private firm in Bhandup. His father is a proprietor of another private firm at Byculla; both manufacture plastic files and folders. As per the complaint, he received nine n...