The Special Establishment of Police (SPE) of lokayukta on Friday arrested a person while accepting bribe of Rs50,000 for Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) posted with Bairagarh police for disposing a property dispute in Bairagarh. According to the SP lokayukta VN Singh the complainant Sunil Naagar owns a cloth store at Mukherji market and was having a dispute with Tarachand Vachani over the shop. A case was registered with the Bairagarh police regarding the dispute.
The investigating officer ASI IS Rajput demanded a bribe of Rs15 lakh from the complainant and had already taken Rs5 lakh and the accused ASI was demanding the remaining amount without proper disposing the matter. When the accused demanded Rs50000 from the victim he decided to lodge a complaint with the lokayukta, he added.
The lokayukta officials told the victim to provide the amount. The accused sent Sanjay alias Sukhbir to accept the money and while he was accepting the bribe at SDM office in Bairagarh he was caught red handed but soon after Sanjay’s arrest the main accused Rajput switched off his mobile phone and went missing and is still untraceable.
Sanjay was nabbed at around 4 pm but still the main accused ASI IS Rajput is missing and the search for the absconding accused has been started. A case under section 13 (1) (d) and 13 (2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 was registered against the accused and further investigation has been started into the matter.