Mumbai: Crime branch officer caught taking Rs 2 lakh bribe

Maharashtra's Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested a police officer from Mumbai's crime branch for taking Rs 2 lakh bribe and demanding a total bribe of Rs 12 lakhs in a BMW car theft case.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a police officer from the Mumbai crime branch for accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakhs on Friday. The property cell of Mumbai crime branch had been investigating a theft case of a BMW car and the complainant's husband and the husband's friend were under scanner in the case.The accused, identified as Assistant Police Inspector (API) Nagesh Puranik, 45, had been investigating the case and had demanded Rs 12 lakhs as a bribe for not initiating action against the complainant's husband and the husband's friend in the case.According to ACB officials, Puranik had accepted Rs 4 lakhs earlier as a bribe out of the Rs 12 lakhs demanded from the complainant. He was now demanding the pending Rs 8 lakhs from the complainant, failing which he threatened to take action against her husband and a friend of her husband.ALSO READ: Bailable warrant re-issued against Param Bir Singh for failing to appear before inquiry commission