In 5 years, 41 cops booked in graft cases……….Sameer Kumar Sharma
In the last five years, 42 personnel of the Chandigarh Police were booked in various corruption cases.
In the period, 33 cases were registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The information was revealed under the Right to Information Act.
As many as 22 cases were investigated by the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and others were probed by the Vigilance Wing of the Chandigarh Police.
Most of these policemen booked for graft charges have been convicted.
Further, in eight cases, two officials each were booked, indicating that these cops operated in coordination with each other. In most such cases, a sub-inspector and a head constable or constable have been booked together.
Among the 41 cops booked in corruption cases, there were 14 were sub-inspectors, four assistant sub-inspectors, 10 head constables and 12 constables.
One inspector was acquitted in a case but the CBI had challenged the decision in the Supreme Court.
In several cases, the bribe amount was only a few thousand rupees. On February 17 this year, a head constable posted in the Sector-61 police post was caught red-handed by the CBI while taking a bribe of Rs 2,000.