MUMBAI, May 30 -- The Mumbai unit of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested the deputy registrar of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)'s Mumbai bench, Charan Pratap Singh, along with one of his acquaintances, for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs.3 lakh from a hotel owner to expedite and settle his case before a NCLT court in his favour. The CBI also conducted searches at the premises of the accused in Mumbai and Lucknow. The hotel owner, the complainant in the case, had a dispute related to his hotel's ownership and associated financial issues with his brothers, a case that has been pending since November 2020. Of the Rs.3 lakh bribe money allegedly collected by Singh's accused acquaintance Karsan Ganesh Ahir, Rs.1 lakh was in real currency while the rest was dummy cash, officials said. The officials caught Ahir red-handed while accepting the bribe from the complainant on behalf of Singh. Singh was apprehended from Colaba on Wednesday, and the duo was arrested on Thursday. During the remand hearing, Singh's lawyer opposed CBI's arrest of his client and its plea for his remand. The court remanded the arrested accused duo to judicial custody till June 11. The CBI is likely to plead for their custody next week, legal sources said. The CBI told the court that the grounds of arrest of the NCLT official included his recorded conversations with the complainant in which he gave the impression that using his contacts he would get the matter settled in NCLT in favour of the complainant. It also said that the accused's custodial interrogation might lead to "vital clues, regarding the involvement of other senior officials of NCLT", if any, and for seeking his "voice sample"....