A special anti-corruption court on Wednesday sentenced former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) AK Jain to five years’ imprisonment for demanding accepting a bribe from a subordinate officer to protect the latter in a departmental inquiry.
The court also sentenced Jain’s chartered accountant Prassanna lodha who had abetted the DIG in trying to extract money from a police sub-inspector, to five years’ imprisonment. The court imposed a fine of `1.5 lakh each on both the convicts. In 2000, police inspector Sanjeev Kokil was facing a departmental inquiry into a complaint that he and several officers were turning blind eye to the bars at Byculla in south Mumbai remaining open beyond the stipulated night hours.
A 1982-batch IPS officer, DIG Jain — who was conducting the inquiry — had demanded a sum of `5 lakh from Kokil to absolve of the matter.
After Jain made the demand through CA lodha, Kokil approached State anti-corruption bureau. Jain’s accountant lodha was trapped On May 26, 2000 by the ACB officials while accepting the bribe on behalf of Jain. lodha was taken into custody.