TN braces for heavy rains as Cyclone Fengal makes landfall today
The IMD has predicted heavy rains till November 29 across the state and in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
The CBI on Friday arrested a project manager of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) and an another person for allegedly seeking a bribe of Rs 2 lakh for regularising a roadside eatery in Tamil Nadu, an agency spokesperson said.
The spokesperson said that one M Rayar owned a 6,000-sq feet land at Poonthottam village in the Villupuram district adjacent to the NH 45 which was rented out for last six months for running a restaurant.
NHAI Project Director H Bhima Simha issued a notice calling the restaurant unauthorised and directed it be removed, a CBI FIR in the case alleged.
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It said Rayar had applied for regularising the eatery and remitted necessary charges of Rs 1.60 lakh through a demand draft in the favour of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in August.
Not getting any response, he met Simha who allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh for giving permission, it alleged.
Rayar approached the CBI as he did not want to pay the bribe, it said.
The agency laid a trap and arrested Simha and a private person while they were receiving the alleged bribe money, the CBI spokesperson said.
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