Two cops arrested in graft case

ACB officers identified the suspects as sub-inspector Tonde and constable Revandkar.

The Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau has trapped and arrested a sub-inspector and a constable with the Malwani police for allegedly accepting a bribe from a scrap dealer based in Malwani. The two policemen had recently gone to Punjab to investigate a cheating case registered by the scrap dealer, and were demanding money in exchange for investigating the case as well as for reimbursement of the expenses that they incurred while in Punjab, officers said.

ACB officers identified the two suspects as sub-inspector Deepak Tonde and constable Ramakant Revandkar. The complainant had registered a complaint of cheating against a Punja-based business associate earlier this month and on June 16, Tonde and Revandkar had demanded Rs 10,00 from him in exchange for proper investigation of the case, which he had paid at the time.

Tonde and Revandkar subsequently left for Jalandhar in Punjab to investigate the case and on June 22, they contacted the complainant and told him that he would have to pay their hotel bills. Unwilling to pay any more money to the policemen, the complainant had approached the ACB on June 23.

“During subsequent investigations, we got enough evidence to confirm the bribe demand as well as the fact that the duo had accepted money from the complainant earlier, and we registered a case against them. Acting on our instructions, the complainant contacted them again on June 24 and they told him to foot their hotel bill of Rs 9,883 and a further sum of Rs 5,000 for expenses,” said an ACB officer.

The complainant subsequently transferred Rs 14,883 to the account of an employee working with the hotel on June 24. On Monday, when Tonde and Revandkar reached Mumbai from Punjab, they were arrested by a team of ACB officials from the Borivali railway station and charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Further inquiries are underway against them, said officers.

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