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ASP Divya Mittal took Rs 1 crore as bribe from Dehradun-based pharma unit owner: ACB | Jaipur News
AJMER/JAIPUR: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Thursday submitted a 11,500-page chargesheet against suspended additional SP of special operation group (SOG) Divya Mittal for allegedly taking Rs 1 crore as bribe from a Dehradun-based pharma unit owner and also for demanding Rs 2 crore from another Haridwar-based pharma unit owner during the investigation into banned medicine cases.
Charges against co-accused Sumit, a police constable who had been terminated and escaped during investigation, have been kept pending by the ACB. Mangilal Chaudhary, the additional SP of ACB who investigated the case, submitted the chargesheet in the ACB court in Ajmer. The court is likely to take it on record on Friday.
“She is charged with Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act for demanding and accepting bribe, Section 385 (putting a person in the fear of injury) and Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the IPC,” said Chaudhary to TOI.
ASP Mittal had sought 2cr bribe from tycoon
Mittal was arrested on January 16 from her residence in Ajmer by the special ACB Jaipur team. She had allegedly demanded Rs 2 crore from one Vikas Agarwal, a Haridwar-based owner of pharmaceutical firms, for not naming him as an accused in the banned medicine cases.
“Initially, the demand was for Rs 2 crore. Then Agarwal, who is the complainant in the case, was asked to give Rs 1 crore. But middleman Sumit finally asked Agarwal to pay Rs 50 lakh,” Chaudhary said.
In the chargesheet, the ACB has also submitted that the accused officer had earlier taken Rs 1 crore as bribe for removing the name of one Sunil Nandwani from two pending NDPS cases against him. Nandwani is the owner of a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit in Dehradun. “The Rs 1 crore bribe from Nandwani was taken much prior to her (Mittal) arrest,” Chaudhary said.
Nandwani was arrested on June 4, 2022 in three different cases under NDPS Act. “The accused officer Mittal had first sought permission from SOG to arrest Nandwani in three different FIRs against him. Later, she took Rs 1 crore and sought permission to remove his name from two of these FIRs. This has also been put in the chargesheet,” he said.
Charges against co-accused Sumit, a police constable who had been terminated and escaped during investigation, have been kept pending by the ACB. Mangilal Chaudhary, the additional SP of ACB who investigated the case, submitted the chargesheet in the ACB court in Ajmer. The court is likely to take it on record on Friday.
“She is charged with Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act for demanding and accepting bribe, Section 385 (putting a person in the fear of injury) and Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the IPC,” said Chaudhary to TOI.
ASP Mittal had sought 2cr bribe from tycoon
Mittal was arrested on January 16 from her residence in Ajmer by the special ACB Jaipur team. She had allegedly demanded Rs 2 crore from one Vikas Agarwal, a Haridwar-based owner of pharmaceutical firms, for not naming him as an accused in the banned medicine cases.
“Initially, the demand was for Rs 2 crore. Then Agarwal, who is the complainant in the case, was asked to give Rs 1 crore. But middleman Sumit finally asked Agarwal to pay Rs 50 lakh,” Chaudhary said.
In the chargesheet, the ACB has also submitted that the accused officer had earlier taken Rs 1 crore as bribe for removing the name of one Sunil Nandwani from two pending NDPS cases against him. Nandwani is the owner of a pharmaceutical manufacturing unit in Dehradun. “The Rs 1 crore bribe from Nandwani was taken much prior to her (Mittal) arrest,” Chaudhary said.
Nandwani was arrested on June 4, 2022 in three different cases under NDPS Act. “The accused officer Mittal had first sought permission from SOG to arrest Nandwani in three different FIRs against him. Later, she took Rs 1 crore and sought permission to remove his name from two of these FIRs. This has also been put in the chargesheet,” he said.
