CBI arrests colonel, major for taking bribe

TNN | Dec 30, 2011, 04.12AM IST

JAIPUR: The CBI on Thursday arrested a colonel and a major for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 and Rs 20,000, respectively, at Sriganganagar. Both officers, who belong to Military Engineering Service were working at the Command Works Engineer there, CBI sources said.

Acting on the basis of an anonymous complainant, who is a contractor engaged in engineering works of the Army, the CBI laid a trap in which Colonel R K Bansal was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000.

"The army officer had asked the contractor to pay the bribe money at the highway near Abohar in Sriganganagar. While he was accepting the bribe, we caught him," DSP Y K Sharma said.

Major Anindya Roy was arrested for accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 at his office in Srigananagar.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/CBI-arrests-colonel-major-for-taking-bribe/articleshow/11299014.cms

UP officer alleges corruption, cops dump him in hospital

Bhupendra Pandey, Sat, Nov 05, 2011, Lucknow:

IPS Devendra Dutt Misra is dragged from his office in Lucknow Friday.

A senior police officer was bodily lifted by police and dragged kicking and screaming from his office in Lucknow this evening, hours after he alleged massive corruption and embezzlement of funds in the purchase of equipment and other material. Police said the officer appeared to have a “mental problem”.

Devendra Dutt Misra, a deputy inspector general at the UP Fire Service Headquarters, had alleged earlier in the evening that the entire state government from the highest to the lowest levels was corrupt. He was compelled to speak, Misra said, because he had been awakened — “jaagrook ho gayaa hoon”.

Misra, who was promoted to the IPS in 1992 and is due to retire in two years, said he would make public files containing evidence of corruption. “I have told my wife and children that I can be murdered or sent to jail at any time,” he said.

He alleged that senior officials had siphoned off crores in the purchase of water tanks, and that Fire Service ADG Harish Chandra Singh had pressured him to clear the files.

ADG Singh denied the charge. ADG (Law & Order) Subesh Kumar Singh said he had received no complaints.

Late this evening, a police team stormed Misra’s office and took him to the CSMMU Trauma Centre. Lucknow DIG D K Thakur told The Indian Express that the DIG was “behaving abnormally and seemed to have some mental problem”.

Soon afterward, the state government issued a statement saying Misra’s allegations would be investigated and action will be taken.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/up-officer-alleges-corruption-cops-dump-him-in-hospital/871142/