Madhya Pradesh cops ‘beat up driver, loot Rs 1.45 crore hawala money from vehicle’, 10 suspended

Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Kailash Makwana issued an order suspending SDOP Pooja Pandey based on the report of the IG. During the suspension period, she will be posted at the police headquarters in Bhopal.

Seoni Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Kumar Mehta said that during a checking operation on Wednesday night, the Bandol police station in-charge and the staff from the office of the SDOP intercepted a four-wheeler in the Siladehi forest. The other suspended police personnel included sub-inspector Arpit Bhairam, who is the Bandol station in-charge, head constables Makhan and Ravindra Uike, and constables Jagdish Yadav, Yogendra Chaurasia, Ritesh, Neeraj Rajput, Kedar and Sadafal.

“The police personnel discovered a large amount of cash, which was being transported from Katni in MP to Jalna in Maharashtra. However, instead of seizing the cash, they beat up the driver, chased him away and tried to usurp it,” the officer said.

“The police team also did not keep their seniors informed about the hawala money. They were exposed when the businessman, who lost the money, reached the Kotwali police station on Thursday morning,” he said.

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