India, May 20 -- The anti-corruption bureau of the Haryana government arrested two Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (DHBVNL) officials from Farrukhnagar while they were allegedly accepting bribes from a contractor and an affluent farmer for issuing a new commercial energy connection and replacing a transformer, officials said on Sunday.

ACB officials said both arrests took place at about 7pm on Friday. They said that the arrested officials were Anil Kumar and Rajbir Kumar, both junior engineers posted at DHBVN's Farrukhnagar sub-divisional office.

Officials said that they had received a complaint against Anil in which the complainant, a water supply contractor, had alleged that he was demanding Rs.40,000 as bribe to install a ...