PUNE: The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Pune, on Sunday arrested assistant sub-inspector Sandipan Mali (56) of the Baramati City police on the charge of accepting bribe of Rs 30,000 to file a favourable chargesheet.
An officer from the ACB said the complainant’s wife filed a case against an illegal money lender. “Mali had demanded Rs40,000 from the complainant to file a chargesheet in favour of his wife’s complaint. Later, he agreed on Rs30,000,” the officer said.
He said after receiving the complaint, a trap was laid near the police station. “We caught him red-handed, accepting the money,” he said.
Two PMC employees held in graft case
The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) arrested a foreman and a driver of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for accepting a bribe of Rs10,000 from a 36-year-old PMC contract worker to allow him to work on night shifts and to stop his transfer. The two were trapped on Saturday evening near the Vishrambaug ward office.
The foreman, Ravi Londhe, and driver of a garbage truck, Harshal Adagale, are posted with Vishrambaug Wada ward office, ACB said.
According to the ACB, the two demanded a bribe of Rs15,000 from the contract worker but eventually settled for Rs10,000. Adagale accepted the bribe at the behest of Londhe.
Last week, ACB sleuths arrested a talathi from Charholi Budruk in Haveli taluka, while he was accepting a Rs 30,000 bribe to update a 7/12 extract.
