CHANDIGARH: Two persons, including the brother of a former BJP councillor, were arrested by the CBI while accepting Rs 3 lakh in bribe from a resident of Ram Dardar on behalf of a UT police constable, Pawan, who s absconding.
The two accused were produced before the court today and were remanded in three day custody.
The CBI claimed that the accused were demanding money form Deepak, a resident of Phase II, Ram Darbar, after threatening him with implication in an extortion case registered by the Operations Cell in July.
According to the CBI, on July 22, a policeman visited the complainants shop at Ram Darbar and told him that Inspector Harinder Sekhon, incharge, Operations Cell, office in Sector 26, where already present.
The complainant was questioned about his association with Mani Rajput, who is an accused in the extortion case.
The police told the complainant that they had found chats between him and Mani that established he was an accomplice of Mani.
The CBI, in its remand application, mentioned that the complainant alleged that pawan and Sekon Presured him to pay Rs 7 lakh in bribe for not including his name in the case. It is alleged that the complainant was illegally kept at the Operations Cell and let off on July 23.
The remand application further states that the complainant alleged that on July 27 Manish Dubey, alias Bablu; and Anil Goyal, alias Kuki, both private persons, took him to Operations Cell, where he was again presured for the bribe.
The complainant, however, approched the CBI, following which the bureau sleuths laid a trap and nabbed Dubey.