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.