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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation on July 16 has arrested Dr K. Narayan Rao, member secretary of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), while he was taking a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from an engineering college owner of Andhra Pradesh.
The CBI said the seized amount was the first installment of the Rs 20 lakh deal struck for giving approval to the college. A middleman, S.B. Subba Rao, was also arrested.
Dr Narayan Rao is from Andhra Pradesh and has worked in Osmania College of Engineering for nearly three decades and had faced several corruption charges during his stint there.
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