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NAGPUR, JUNE 30: Two policemen, including a head-constable, attached to the Deolapar police station in the Nagpur rural set-up, were trapped by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ACB while taking a bribe of Rs 500 from a person for not taking action against him in a theft case.
Head-constable Ramchandra Gokulprasad Kashyap took the ACB team by surprise when he literally ate the currency notes on realising that he was trapped. As luck would have it, the notes got entangled in his throat and he had to be rushed to the rural hospital at Deolapar where they were retrieved by the medical authorities.
Kashyap and his aide, constable Kailash Mahadev Ingole, were later arrested on charges of bribery and attempt to destroy evidence.
The 44-year-old complainant, Bansilal Ramchandra Paardhi Kalar of Hivra Bazaar in Ramtek, had reported to the ACB authorities here that Kashyap and Ingole had demanded Rs 500 from him for not registering a case of television theft against him. The duo called him at Paoni to hand over the bribe amount.
Acting on the complaint, an ACB team, led by Deputy Superintendent Vijay Swami and Inspector Rathod, laid a trap and caught the duo red-handed while accepting the bribe. Sub-inspector F V Rothe is investigating.
