Shahjahanpur (UP), Mar 23 (PTI) A police sub-inspector was caught taking bribe after threatening an accused of illegal liquor trade here, officials on Saturday said.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sanjay Kumar told PTI that a case was recently registered against a person named Satyapal Singh, a resident of Banda police station area, on charges of illegal liquor business.
Singh had alleged that Sub-Inspector Narendra Kumar Sharma had threatened him that if he did not give him a bribe of Rs 10,000 then he would add a serious charge in the case and send him to jail.
The victim had lodged a complaint in this regard with the Bareilly-based Anti-Corruption Organisation and its team which was here last night arrested the sub-inspector while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 inside the Banda police station, the ASP said.
The Anti-Corruption Organisation team has lodged a case against the accused sub-inspector at the Sadar Bazar police station, he added. PTI COR SAB AS AS
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