The divisional Anti-Corruption Bureau team nabbed the officer in-charge of Gorhar police station of Hazaribagh district taking Rs 6000 as bribe from the informer Juthi Bhuiyan. The ACB team immediately took the OIC Sunil Kumar Jha into custody and after making search of his office and residence took him first to Hazaribagh and from here was sent to Ranchi.
According to sources OIC Sunil Kumar Jha has demanded Rs 20000 as bribe to dispose the case of Juthi Bhuiyan. Bhuiyan has paid Rs 2000 earlier and was regularly praying to the police officer to dispose the case. The case against Bhuiyan was lodged by his neighbor some days ago. When the police officers refused to do the work without getting the rest amount, Bhuiyan informed about it to the ACB.
The ACB team first enquired the matter and then instructed Bhuiyan to negotiate with the police officer. As per negotiation on Friday 3rd February Bhuiyan handed over Rs 6000 to the OIC and alert ACB team members caught him red handedly. The ACB team then searched his office and residence and seized some papers.
DSP Pran Ranjan Kumar was leading the ACB team involved in this operation against corrupt police official.