GURUGRAM: A city
court sentenced a sub-inspector (SI) of Gurugram police to five years in jail and slapped a fine of Rs 5,000 on him, almost three years after he was caught red-handed taking
bribe from a man implicated in a a stalking case.
Additional district and sessions judge Sandeep Duggal on Friday held SI Ajmer Singh guilty under sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Following the court order, Singh was sent to jail.
Singh, who served in the Indian
Army between 1999 and 2007 before joining the Gurugram police, was posted at Khandsa police chowki in 2015 when he was caught accepting Rs 10,000 bribe by the state
vigilance bureau. He was arrested and later released on bail.
During investigation, it was found that Singh had demanded Rs 50,000 for cancelling a case registered against Pradeep Kumar, a Bhangrola resident, under sections 354D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
The case was filed after Pradeep was accused of stalking and intimidating a woman. Though the charges levelled against Pradeep were found to be false in the police investigation, SI Singh asked Pradeep to pay Rs 50,000 to process the cancellation of the case in court. Pradeep had already paid him Rs 40,000, and was about to pay him the last installment when Singh was nabbed.
Pradeep’s case was to be presented and nullified in a local court in June 2015. But Singh refused to sign the documents unless he got the remaining Rs 10,000. Pradeep tipped off the state vigilance bureau, which laid a trap to nab Singh red-handed.
Acting on the vigilance bureau’s instruction, Pradeep picked up the cop in his car from a city court and accompanied him to an isolated place in the vicinity of the police commissioner’s office, where a vigilance bureau team was already on standby. When Pradeep handed him the money, the vigilance team caught him accepting the bribe. Singh was arrested under sections 7 (demanding bribe) and 13 (recovery of the bribe) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Public prosecutor Jagbir Sehrawat said, “The cop pleaded for leniency, saying he had to look after his children and citing his Army background. But the court rejected his plea.”
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