CBI nabs Uttarakhand cop taking bribe in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 20

The CBI has arrested a Sub-Inspector of the Uttarakhand police for demanding a bribe of Rs 5 lakh and collecting the first tranche of Rs 1 lakh in Chandigarh from a local taxi driver.

The suspect, Sub-Inspector Hemant Khanduri, is posted at the Cantt police station, Dehradun.

“A case was registered on a complaint alleging that Khanduri was demanding a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from the complainant for not taking action against him whose name had cropped up in a case of cheating lodged at the Cantt police station, Dehradun,” said CBI spokesperson RC Joshi.

The spokesperson said the CBI had laid a trap in Chandigarh wherein the Sub-Inspector of the Uttarakhand police “was caught red-handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh as part payment”.

The CBI official said searches at two residential places of the suspect in Dehradun were being conducted and certain incrementing documents and other evidence were recovered. He would be produced before a local court tomorrow, he added.