CHADIGARH: A senior Indian Police Service officer of the 2009 batch, presently posted as DIG, Ropar Range, Punjab, along with a private individual has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday, at his Mohali office on bribery charges.
According to a press note the officer was arrested in a bribery case involving Rs. 8 lakh. The officer was also allegedly seeking recurring monthly illegal payments from the complainant.
During searches at various premises linked to the police officer in Punjab and Chandigarh, the CBI sleuths seized around Rs 5 crore in cash, 1.5kg of jewellery, 22 ‘luxury watches’, keys to an Audi and a Mercedes, locker keys, 40 litres of imported liquor bottles, a pistol, a revolver and a double-barrelled gun during searches at premises linked to hi. Documents pertaining to immovable properties and assets in Punjab were also seized, it said.
CBI laid a trap and caught the private individual red-handed while demanding and accepting Rs 8 lakh from the complainant on behalf of the DIG at Sector 21, Chandigarh, the press statement said adding, that a ‘controlled call’ was made to Bhullar during which he “acknowledged the payment” and directed the middleman and complainant to come to his office, said the statement. The CBI team then apprehended the duo.
According to the official statement the complainant is a resident of Mandi Gobindgarh and was facing a case of theft of iron and steel products.
