The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested a 45-year-old assistant inspector working in the property cell unit of Mumbai Crime Branch while accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh.
Officials said that the complainant in this case is the wife of the accused person in a luxury car theft case and accused officer Nagesh Puranik is probing the case.
“The friend of her husband is also an accused in the same case and Puranik demanded Rs 12 lakh from the complainant for not taking any action against him,” said an officer. “He had given her Rs 4 lakh earlier also but he kept threatening her for the remaining amount.”
As the complainant insisted that she could not pay him the remaining Rs 8 lakh, Puranik agreed to settle the matter of Rs 4 lakh. “They instructed him to make the payment on Friday,” an official said.
After this, on Friday, the woman went to the Worli headquarters of ACB. The officials verified his complaint after which they laid a trap in the office of the accused in Byculla and caught him red-handed.
Puranik has been booked under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. He was produced in the court on Saturday from where he has been taken on police remand till Monday.
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