ACB Gujarat nabs a Police man in Rs. 5,000 bribe case

Gandhinagar: Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) Gujarat has nabbed ASI of Unava outpost of Pethapur Police Station in a bribe case of Rs 5,000.

The complainant’s wife had willingly gone to her native in Maharashtra. Due to conflicting relations between the complainant and his sister-in-law, she filed an application at Unava outpost that the complaint’s wife is missing.

The investigation was handed over to accused ASI Hasmukhbhai Ambalal Sharma. He called the complainant at Unava outpost for questioning and took his statement in which the complainant informed that his wife id noy missing and she has willingly gone to her native and there is no conflict between them.

The complainant, his wife and his sister-in-law went to Pethapur police station after his wife returned from her father’s place in Maharashtra. The accused cop had made reconciliation regarding the application. He demanded a bribe of Rs 20,000 at first to file the application and later reduced it to Rs 5000 after arguments with the complainant.

The complainant contacted ACB on toll free numberas he was not willing to pay the bribe. The accused was found accepting a bribe of Rs 5000 from the complainant during a trap executed by ACB today on 7th October. ACB has detained the accused ASI. DeshGujarat