Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, Jan 10: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today caught a Sub Inspector (SI), posted in Police Station Mendhar, red-handed while accepting bribe of Rs 10,000 from a villager.
Official sources said that Sub Inspector, Naseer Khan of Police Station Mendhar was arrested by the ACB team, packed in a police gypsy and then taken to Jammu. A case FIR No. 01/2020 under Section 7 of Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 r/w Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was registered against him.
The action was taken against the police officer on the basis of a complaint lodged by Shehdab Hussain, son of Munir Hussain, resident of Chhajla, Tehsil Mankote.
The complainant alleged that a case FIR No. 137/2019 under Sections 341, 336, 147, 447 RPC stands registered in Police Station Mendhar against five accused persons, which has been challaned in the court against his father, mother, wife and complainant. The said case is being investigated by Sub Inspector Naseer Khan, who is demanding Rs 10,000 from the complainant for not presenting the charge-sheet against his minor sister.
Accordingly, a team of officers was constituted to lay a trap against the SI, which caught the official red-handed while accepting an amount of Rs 10,000 by way of illegal gratification from the complainant at Main Bazaar Mendhar town. Further, investigation of the case is going on.
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