A team from the eastern region office of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday arrested a Jhapa District Administration Office official red-handed while receiving Rs 100,000 as bribe from a service seeker.

DSP Ramesh Basnet said Nirmalraj Khanal, a section officer at the DAO, had taken the amount from the service seeker promising to “complete his task”. DSP Basnet said Khanal had reached Damak to collect the bribe. (PR)