The CBI has arrested a chief electrical distribution engineer with the Central Railway and two private persons in an alleged bribery case of Rs 10 lakh, officials said on Tuesday. The central probe agency had registered the case against the 2003-batch officer of the Indian Railway Services of Electrical Engineers, working as a chief electrical distribution engineer with the Central Railway, and others on Monday.

During searches at five locations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Karjat in Maharashtra that followed the arrests, the CBI seized Rs 90.79 lakh in cash, gold jewellery weighing 241.30 gm and 2.5 kg silver jewellery amounting to Rs 42.52 lakh, and other documents of investments from the chief engineer's premises, a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.