Chandigarh, Sep 6 (IANS): In yet another embarrassment for the zonal office of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) here, its zonal director S.K. Sekhri was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sunday evening for accepting a bribe.

CBI deputy inspector general (DIG) Mahesh Aggarwal said that Sekhri was trapped by CBI officials when he accepted the bribe of Rs.200,000 from the owner of a Himachal Pradesh-based pharmaceutical company at a designated place in Delhi Sunday.

Aggarwal said that Sekhri was nabbed following a complaint by the company owner based in Baddi industrial town in Himachal Pradesh, 45 km from Chandigarh.

His house in Delhi's Prashant Vihar was also raided, he said.

The NCB official had raided the factory of the complainant last month and later allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs.200,000. Sekhri allegedly threatened the company owner that he would be booked under the Narcotics Act if he did not pay the money.

"The NCB official asked the complainant to come to Delhi to deliver the money. The CBI laid a trap and arrested him," DIG Aggarwal said.

Sekhri is the second senior NCB official to be arrested. His predecessor and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Saji Mohan, was arrested by Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials with 12 kg heroin from a Mumbai suburb in January.

Mohan was earlier posted in Chandigarh as the zonal director of NCB, the central agency to curb narcotics trade in the country.