NEW DELHI: 

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The SMS campaign launched by CBI to create public awareness against corruption seems to have paid rich dividends with the agency claiming it has successfully laid 40 traps so far from September.

"This is not the end. The complaints continue to pour in the agency's anti-corruption branches all over the country," CBI's Press Information Officer R K Gaur said.

On August 13, the CBI tied up with various telecom operators to send out messages to their subscribers giving out the agency's phone number on which citizens could report about any government official demanding bribe.

"Numerous queries have been received by anti corruption branches of CBI regarding the nature of complaints CBI entertains," said Gaur.