Superintendent passport officer KP Singh who was caught red-handed by a CBI team on Monday while accepting a bribe from Haridwar resident M Ahmed was sent to Suddhowala jail on 14-day judicial remand on Tuesday.
Dehradun branch CBI DSP Akhil Kaushik said that the investigating officer produced the accused in the court on Tuesday noon from where he was sent to jail.
Kaushik said that Singh who was second to the regional passport officer in seniority, was nabbed by the CBI team in the act of accepting an amount of Rs8,000 in bribe at the Dehradun passport office. The investigating officer may file a petition in the court seeking police remand of the accused in future.
Singh had allegedly demanded Rs8,000 bribe for issuing Ahmed a passport to enable him to undertake the Haj pilgrimage.