Charges framed against two in bribery case

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 30

Jagjit Singh, Special Judge, CBI Court, has framed charges against two accused – Anil Mor and Dilbag Singh – who were arrested by the CBI for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs10 lakh from an Ambala-based businessman. The charges have been framed under Section 7 of the Prevention of the Corruption Act.

The accused were arrested in April this year on a complaint of Mohit Sharma, director of MS Fantasy Gaming Technology Private Limited, Ambala. In the complaint, Mohit alleged that the accused allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs50 lakh to settle a complaint filed against him regarding a property dispute at the office of the Zirakpur DSP.

The accused allegedly promised the businessman to dispose of a complaint pending against him at the office of the Zirakpur DSP and demanded the bribe.

The complainant later informed the CBI. After getting a complaint against the accused, the agency started investigations.

As per the prosecution, the accused asked Mohit to come with Rs10 lakh at Narwana, Haryana. CBI sleuths laid a trap. As soon as one of the accused accepted the bribe and handed it over to another person, the CBI sleuths nabbed them and recovered the money. The accused belong to Jind and Kaithal district in Haryana.

The complainant alleged that he had already paid Rs12.5 lakh to the accused. The CBI also conducted searches on three premises of the accused in Zirakpur, Jind and Kaithal after the trap.

Vishal Garg Narwana, counsel for the accused, pleaded before the CBI court that the duo was falsely implicated in the case.

After framing the charges, the CBI court fixed October 7 as the next date of hearing for the examination of prosecution witness.