Vigilance arrests policeman for taking Rs 15K bribe

The Vigilance Bureau (VB), Ludhiana, on Tuesday nabbed a sub-inspector (SI), Mandeep Singh, in-charge, police post, Nabipur, which falls under the Sirhind police station, Fatehgarh Sahib district, red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000.

Disclosing this here on Wednesday, Rupinder Singh, SSP, VB (EOW), said the sub-inspector was arrested based on a complaint lodged

by Vineet Kumar, a resident of Ludhiana.

He said the complainant had approached the Vigilance Bureau and alleged that the suspect was demanding Rs 25,000 to release his two private ambulances, which had met with a road accident with a truck but the deal was struck at Rs 20,000. In this regard, a case was registered.

The complainant further alleged that the policeman had already took Rs 5,000 as the first instalment of the bribe money.

The spokesperson said after a preliminary probe of his complaint, a VB

team from the economic offences wing (EOW) laid a trap during which the suspect was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from the complainant in the presence of two official witnesses.