PSI held for accepting bribe

SURAT, July 4: Police Sub-Inspector Narendra Ambikaprasad Jha of the Chowk Bazaar police station was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB on Saturday night while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2000 from a bus-owner.

According to an ACB release, Jha was arrested red-handed, from Sukharam Building on Kot Safil, while accepting the bribe from one Anilkumar Popatlal Pujari. Jha had confiscated Pujari8217;s bus on June 16 8212; after a police team seized four bottles of beer from the vehicle 8212; and was demanding money for its release.

The release said, Pujari, a resident of 220, Deendayal Society, Palanpur Patia and owner of Shivkrupa Travels, conducted tours to Nashik, Trimbakeshwar, Shirdi, Daman and other places. On one such trips, a bus GJ 5 U 3988 returned to the city at about 2 am on June 16 and halted at Ashaktashram Hospital. However, two cooks 8212; accompanying the tour 8212; were found to be carrying two bottles of beer each, when a team of Chowk Bazaar police raided the bus. Jha then confiscated the bus and took it to the police station.