Guwahati, July 25 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an assistant professor of the College of Agriculture in Pasighat of Arunachal Pradesh, for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate a rigged procurement deal.

The accused, Pavan Kumar Gaudar, allegedly colluded with a local vendor, Anand Kumar Dwivedi, proprietor of Matrix Solutions, to manipulate the purchase process and siphon off public funds.

Both men were arrested on July 23 after the CBI laid a trap and caught Gaudar red-handed while allegedly accepting Rs 55,000 in bribe money from Dwivedi.

According to the FIR filed by the CBI, the scandal centres around the inflated procurement of 30 Milton-branded plastic buckets, delivered on July 3 and billed at Rs...