A team of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority has arrested three persons including two government employees in Bhaktapur on charge of taking bribe. 

According to police, non-gazetted first class officer Rishi Ram Budhathoki of Bhaktapur District Land Revenue Office, office assistance Keshab Bahadur Khatri and paralegal practitioner Bishnu Hari were caught red-handed while taking Rs 614,000 from a client. 

The arrest was made in the presence of Kamal Timilsina, chief of the District Land Revenue Office and Inspector Raj Kumar Silwal on Wednesday evening. 

The arrestees were under surveillance for the last one week following complaints against them, said Gokul Panta, an official at the anti-graft body.