Following these searches, the Deputy Superintendent of Police issued a discover on September 24, 2024, summoning the complainant to seem earlier than the NIA Patna workplace on September 26, 2024, the investigating officer stated. (Consultant picture)
CBI staff traps middlemen intently related to deputy MP Ajay Pratap Singh receiving bribe of Rs 20 lakh from complainant within the case
The CBI has arrested a deputy SP and two others of the NIA’s Patna department for allegedly taking undue benefit whereas investigating an ongoing case.
The CBI staff nabbed the intermediary intently associated to the case through which Deputy Superintendent of Police Ajay Pratap Singh accepted a bribe of Rs 20 lakh from the complainant.
A complainant lodged an allegation with the CBI that the officer threatened to extort cash from his household by threatening to manufacture legal circumstances and falsely claiming that his household illegally saved unlicensed assault weapons. It was revealed that the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) had registered a case on this matter and performed searches on the residence and workplace of the complainant on September 19, 2024.
Following these searches, the Deputy Superintendent of Police issued a discover on September 24, 2024, summoning the complainant to seem earlier than the NIA Patna workplace on September 26, 2024, the investigating officer stated.
Through the interrogation, the accused Deputy Sheriff allegedly threatened the complainant that he can be concerned in a legal case and face severe penalties. To assist him escape the implications, the official allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 25 crore.
As a result of stress, the complainant allegedly agreed to pay bribes to guard his household from false accusations. The accused Deputy Superintendent of Police requested the complainant to pay a down cost of Rs 25 lakh on the identical day, September 26, 2024, and supplied him with a handwritten word with the cellular variety of the intermediary.
Subsequently, the complainant allegedly organized for Rs 25 lakh and directed his family members to remit the cash after contacting the designated quantity. As per directions, the cash was delivered to the recipient who arrived in Aurangabad, Bihar.
It was revealed that the Deputy SP was in contact with the alleged intermediary who together with one other intermediary had been current in Aurangabad, Bihar round 11:30 pm on the day of the incident on September 26, 2024, confirming what was reported bribery conduct.
A couple of days later, the complainant was once more summoned to the NIA Patna workplace on October 1 by the deputy SP.
The complainant appeared on the workplace of the Deputy SP on the appointed date. Subsequently, a bribe of Rs 70 lakh was demanded and directions got to ship Rs 35 lakh in Patna on the identical day.
The accused Deputy Superintendent of Police once more supplied him with a handwritten word containing a cell phone quantity, which was subsequently contacted by the complainant, requesting a time period to rearrange the cost and guaranteeing supply in Gaya on October 3.
In coordination with the NIA, a case was registered towards the NIA Deputy SP on October 3 underneath Sections 7,12 of the PC Act (2018 Revision) and Sections 308(6) and 61(2) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita , two intermediaries and different unknown individuals.
Searches are being carried out at numerous areas in Gaya, Patna and Varanasi and investigation into the case is ongoing. Thus far, a number of incriminating paperwork and digital units have been seized in the course of the searches, in addition to a bribe quantity of Rs 20 lakh.
