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Senior Punjab Police official caught taking bribe
Tribune News Service

Punjab Police Service (PPS) official Sandhu was earlier arrested in connection with the infamous Moga sex scandal along with some senior police officials and the son of a former Akali leader three years ago. The CBI is yet to receive prosecution sanction in that case as the request for sanction is still pending with the Home Department of the state. Today, he was arrested from a coffee shop in Sector 28 and was later taken to the Bhakra Beas Management Board guesthouse in Sector 35 for further interrogation by the CBI.

CBI officials said they laid a trap after receiving a complaint from a Mohali resident Nishant Sharma, former Shiv Sena Youth Wing president, who alleged that PS Sandhu was demanding Rs 3 lakh for favouring him in an inquiry pending against him. Nishant has been booked for cheating and forgery (cases have been registered against him at different police stations of Punjab) and two inquiries are pending against him with AIG Sandhu. CBI officials also raided Sandhu’s house in Sector 28 and seized some documents. A case under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused. He will be produced in the court of a special CBI judge tomorrow. In 2008, Sandhu was the SP (headquarters), Moga, when he was arrested along with former SSP (Moga) DS Garcha in connection with a sex scandal. It was alleged that the accused police officials, in connivance with others, extorted money from people, threatening to implicate them in false rape cases.