The Station House Officer (SHO) of Sector-29 police station was arrested on Tuesday accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 for allowing a contractor to park towaway vehicles in the police station area. The officer, Sandeep Kumar Mor, was arrested by Vigilance officers. Vigilance officers said Rakesh Kumar, the contractor who operates a towaway van on MG Road, had approached the department, complaining that the SHO demanded Rs 5,000 per day to allow vehicles towed away for violations to be parked inside the police station area. A trap was laid and the officer arrested red-handed. Kumar was to pay Rs 20,000 to Mor on Tuesday morning. As he had tipped off the Vigilance department, duty magistrate Daljeet Singh, tehsildar Sohna, inspector Jagdish Dagar, assistant sub-inspectors Naresh Kumar and Bhupinder Singh laid a trap and caught him red-handed, sources said. “A case under Section 7/13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused and he will be produced in court on Wednesday. Further investigation is on,” Deputy Inspector-General Yogender Singh Nehra, who supervised the operation, said. Sources said Kumar called the accused and told him that he would pay him Rs 20,000 at the police station. The notes were coated with a special powder. When Mor realised that a trap had been laid, he tried to hide the money, sources said. “The complainant was in touch with senior officers of the Vigilance department for the past few days,” Dagar said.
