The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday chargesheeted one of its inspectors, seven months after he was arrested on bribery charges.

The charge sheet against M S Sisodiya, who was an inspector in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, was filed in New Delhi.

Sisodiya, according to the CBI, had taken Rs 25,000 from one Amit Chaudhary, a sales officer in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, for favouring him in a case registered by the agency.

Chaudhary claimed that Sisodiya first contacted him on his mobile phone in November 2003 and asked him to meet him.

But the meeting did not materialise. In April 2004, Sisodiya rang up Chaudhary from Delhi and asked him to meet him in Greater Kailash.

During the meeting, Sisodiya asked Chaudhary to pay him a Rs 1 lakh for not taking punitive action against him in a case registered by the agency in December 2002.

Chaudhary was asked to pay Rs 25,000 first and the rest later.

He, however, brought it to the CBI's notice and the agency laid a trap for Sisodiya.

On April 23, 2004, Sisodiya was arrested from the Maha Kaushal Express at the Nizamuddin Railway Station, where he had received the money from Chaudhary, the charge sheet said.

Sisodiya had joined the Madhya Pradesh police in 1990 as sub-inspector. He came to CBI on deputation as an inspector in July 2002.