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/

Minister’s PA, assistant and clerk arrested for taking bribe

Express news service, Fri, Sep 23, 2011, Mumbai:

The Mumbai unit of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught the personal assistant (PA), assistant and clerk of the Minister for School Education red-handed for allegedly accepting bribe. The officials were arrested from Mantralaya after a trap was laid by the ACB.

According to ACB officers, PA Deepak Karande, clerk Pravin Bodke and assistant Prashant Andhare were arrested after they allegedly sought bribe from a complainant. “The complainant is the secretary of an educational institution. He had sent a proposal to start English medium in the institution for Class VIII to XII. The file was pending here, so the complainant went to meet Andhare,” said an ACB officer.

“Andhare told the complainant he will forward the file to higher authorities if he was given Rs 50,000. When the complainant said he couldn’t shell out such a large sum, Andhare told him to give Rs 30,000, failing which he would not send the file for approval,” said the officer.

Seeing that Andhare will not budge, the complainant paid him Rs 15,000. Andhare then told him that he will forward the file only when the complainant pays up the remaining amount. He also told him to speak to the minister’s PA for further work.

“The complainant then went to the PA, who asked him for Rs 90,000. Tired of paying bribes, he filed a written complaint against the assistant and the PA. A trap was then laid for them,” the officer said.

A team of ACB officials waited outside and as the two accused took bribe and were arrested. “They confessed that they asked for a bribe. The PA was caught while he was taking part payment of Rs 50,000. We also arrested the clerk Bodke who also asked the complainant for Rs 15,000. Further investigations are on,” said the officer.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ministers-pa-assistant-and-clerk-arrested/850439/

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Soon, a 24X7 helpline to register bribe complaints

PTI, New Delhi, October 21, 2011

Harassed by corrupt babus demanding bribe or delaying work?

Aggrieved persons will soon be able to seek help through a 24X7 toll free number, 1964, to be made functional by the Central Vigilance Commission.

According to country’s anti-corruption watchdog officials, the number will act as a one-stop solution for all complaints related to corruption.

“The anti-bribery helpline will assist complainants in their problems related to unnecessary lingering of work in a concerned government department due to demand of undue favours or gratification by public servants,” a CVC official said.

He said a full-fledged call centre will also be set up to provide services round the clock.

“People will be able to register complaints related to bribery being faced by them in all the central government ministries, departments and public sector units, among others,” the official said.

However, complaints related to Delhi Government or its departments will not be resolved through the proposed helpline or by the Commission since it does not come under its jurisdiction.

The number, 1964, assumes significance as the Central Vigilance Commission was set up in February 1964 by the government.

“We have worked out the technical modalities with the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL). There are few things needed to be worked out with other stake holders. We plan to start it within two-months time,” the official said.

Presently, the CVC has a toll free number 1800-11-0180 and 011-24651000 which is operational between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

“The 1964 will be working seven days and there will be no such time limitation to register complaints,” the official added.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2558831.ece

Ex-cop gets 3 years in jail in graft case

New Delhi, October 03, 2011

A former police officer has been given a three-year jail term by the Delhi high court for demanding a monthly bribe of Rs 10,000 from a businessman in 1995.

Upholding the trial court's conviction order against Satish Chandra, posted as sub-inspector at Vasant Kunj police station at the time of the incident, the court dismissed his appeal and directed to take him to custody forthwith.

“I am of the view that the appeal is without merit and hence, consequently deserves to be dismissed... Resultantly, the accused shall be taken into custody forthwith," the court said, while rejecting the judgements cited by Chandra to defend himself in the case.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Ex-cop-gets-3-years-in-jail-in-graft-case/Article1-752882.aspx

Govt official jailed for taking bribe to disburse compensation to Sikh riot victims

Express News Service, Fri, Sep 02, 2011, New Delhi:

A Delhi government official has been sentenced to three and half years in jail by a court for taking bribe from a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim for releasing compensation to the family.

Special CBI Judge Dharmesh Sharma on Thursday sentenced 53-year-old Naib Tehsildar I K Takkar, a revenue clerk posted in the office of Najafgarh Sub Divisional Magistrate in West Delhi, for taking bribes five years ago.

“To my mind, the convict, in spite of being a public servant, was totally oblivious of the pain and suffering of the riot victims and by demanding and accepting the bribe from the complainant showed utter lack of sensitivity and depraved human approach,” the judge said, while also imposing a fine of Rs 25,000 upon the convict.

Takkar, who was dealing with disbursement of compensation to 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims, was found guilty of demanding a bribe of Rs 10,000 from Gurmeet Singh Kapoor in August 2006 for releasing over Rs two lakh to him as compensation for the death of his grandfather Inder Singh Kapoor and uncle Paramjeet Singh Kapoor in the pogroms, which took place in the aftermath of the assassination of former PM Indira Gandhi. Takkar was arrested by CBI for allegedly accepting the bribe money in a trap laid by CBI following Kapoor’s complaint.

During the trial, Takkar had contended that the money had been thrust into his hands but the court rejected it saying, “when money was so thrust upon him, assuming his version to be true for the sake of convenience, he did not protest nor made any hue and cry or threw it away”.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/govt-official-jailed-for-taking-bribe-to-dis/840466/