Jailer of Rajkot central jail nabbed taking Rs 5000 bribe form prisoner as ‘protection money’

Jailer of Rajkot central jail nabbed taking Rs 5000 bribe form prisoner as ‘protection money’

Rajkot: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today nabbed the jailer of Rajkot central jail raid handed taking a bribe of Rs 5000 from a prisoner as ‘protection money’.

PI of the Bhavnagar unit of the ACB U K Makwa who led the team that laid the trap to nab jailer Haresh A Babaria, said that he had asked for the bribe from a prisoner for giving him protection and not keeping him in the high security zone of the jail.

The prisoner had got temporary bail after expiry of which he had come back to the jail. The ACB sleuths caught the jailer raid handed from the jail premises and recorded the whole incident with the help of hidden video camera.

The matter was being further investigated.

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