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Rajasthan woman ASP, middleman held for demanding Rs 2 crore bribe | Jaipur News
AJMER/JAIPUR: An anti-corruption bureau (ACB) team arrested a woman officer of additional SP rank, currently posted with the special operations group (SOG) of the Rajasthan police, and a middleman from Jaipur for allegedly demanding Rs 2 crore as bribe from a pharmaceutical manufacturer after threatening to falsely implicate him in a drug seizure case that she was probing.
Additional SP Divya Mittal, who was arrested, was investigating a case of banned medicines, worth over Rs 16 crore, seized from Ajmer and Jaipur in 2021. The case was registered under various provisions of the NDPS Act.
Initially, the ACB had laid a trap to catch Mittal red handed in Ajmer on January 12, but they failed as the middleman, Sumeet Kumar, failed to turn up to take the bribe. The ACB then secured a search warrant against her from a court.
On Monday, the ACB team first detained Mittal at her flat during the search in Ajmer and arrested and brought her to Jaipur in the evening. The bureau also conducted searches at various places in Ajmer, Udaipur, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur. Refuting the charges, accused Mittal told the media in Ajmer, “I am wrongly implicated in this case. The drug mafia is behind all this. They have been conspiring to remove me from the investigation.”
Pay Rs 2 crore or be implicated in NDPS case, ASP of SOG told firm owner
Additional director general, ACB, Hemant Priyadarshi said, “A complainant had approached us on January 4 and alleged that she was demanding a bribe of Rs 2 crore for not booking and arresting him in an NDPS case. She was demanding the bribe through a middleman, Sumeet Kumar, a policeman who had been terminated from service.”
“When the complainant refused to pay, the bribe demand was first reduced to Rs 1 crore and, finally, to Rs 50 lakh in two instalments. After verifying it, our team searched the residences and other premises of the accused at various places on Monday. She has now been arrested along with the middleman,” said ACB additional director general Dinesh MN.
Searches started in Jhunjhunu, from where the officer hails, and continued in Jaipur and Udaipur as well as the SOG office in Ajmer. Bank pass books and other documents were seized.
Additional SP Divya Mittal, who was arrested, was investigating a case of banned medicines, worth over Rs 16 crore, seized from Ajmer and Jaipur in 2021. The case was registered under various provisions of the NDPS Act.
Initially, the ACB had laid a trap to catch Mittal red handed in Ajmer on January 12, but they failed as the middleman, Sumeet Kumar, failed to turn up to take the bribe. The ACB then secured a search warrant against her from a court.
On Monday, the ACB team first detained Mittal at her flat during the search in Ajmer and arrested and brought her to Jaipur in the evening. The bureau also conducted searches at various places in Ajmer, Udaipur, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur. Refuting the charges, accused Mittal told the media in Ajmer, “I am wrongly implicated in this case. The drug mafia is behind all this. They have been conspiring to remove me from the investigation.”
Pay Rs 2 crore or be implicated in NDPS case, ASP of SOG told firm owner
Additional director general, ACB, Hemant Priyadarshi said, “A complainant had approached us on January 4 and alleged that she was demanding a bribe of Rs 2 crore for not booking and arresting him in an NDPS case. She was demanding the bribe through a middleman, Sumeet Kumar, a policeman who had been terminated from service.”
“When the complainant refused to pay, the bribe demand was first reduced to Rs 1 crore and, finally, to Rs 50 lakh in two instalments. After verifying it, our team searched the residences and other premises of the accused at various places on Monday. She has now been arrested along with the middleman,” said ACB additional director general Dinesh MN.
Searches started in Jhunjhunu, from where the officer hails, and continued in Jaipur and Udaipur as well as the SOG office in Ajmer. Bank pass books and other documents were seized.
