8 years on, complainant turns hostile in graft case against Chandigarh cop
The complainant turned hostile in an eight-year-old corruption case against a UT cop.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested the accused, Raj Kumar, Head Constable of Chandigarh Police, on the complaint of Anil Kumar.
Appearing before the CBI court, the complainant stated that he had not given money to the accused, rather some of the trap team members had taken it from him. Thereafter, he was sent towards a CBI Inspector and didn’t know what happened thereafter.
The CBI had arrested the accused in January 2017 while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from the complainant, a resident of Ram Darbar. The CBI had claimed that the accused cop, who was posted in the Sector 31 police station, was demanding the bribe from the complainant to let him off in an assault case.
The CBI claimed that the police had received a complaint of assault against Anil Kumar. The complaint was filed by a woman of his locality. The accused was tasked with the investigation into the complaint.
The accused visited the complainant’s house and met his father. Later, when the complainant visited the police station, the cop demanded Rs 20,000 in order to let him off.
The CBI claimed that since the complainant did not want to give the bribe, he approached the agency. Its sleuths laid a trap and arrested Raj Kumar while he was allegedly accepting the bribe.
In his complaint, Anil Kumar had stated that Raj Kumar had called him to deliver the money after the deal was struck for Rs 5,000. The cop was booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
