Dhauli police station IIC caught red-handed for taking bribe
Bhubaneswar,
May 22: Dhauli Police Station IIC Debi Prasad Das was nabbed red-handed by Vigilance
officials here today while he was taking bribe of Rs 10,000 from a person
staying in Lingipur area in order to drop a case.
Rakesh
Das of Sasan Damodarpur Village in Puri district at present staying at Lingipur
here had informed the Vigilance officials that the IIC had demanded Rs 20,000
from him to drop the case being registered against him and save him from
arrest.
According
to Rakesh, a neighbour named Basudev Patra, owner of Janani Hospital used to
burn Bio-medical waste as fuel which used to emit bad smell in the surrounding.
Unable to tolerate the foul smell, Rakesh lodged a complaint at the Dhauli
police station. Acting on the complaint the police warned Patra to stop burning
the bio-medical waste.
“Though
Patra stopped burning the fuel but in order to put me in trouble intentionally
he lodged a false complaint at the same police station alleging that I have
threatened him of dire consequences,” alleged Rakesh.
Vigilance Raid on IIC's residence |
Lastly
Rakesh informed the matter to the Vigilance officials here.
Acting
on the complaint Vigilance team, in a planned way, caught him red-handed while
he was collecting bribe of Rs 10,000 from the complainant in the police station
and simultaneously raided the residence of the IIC.
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