Mumbai police station head caught red-handed while accepting bribe for providing protection to a school’s trustee
The anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Mumbai, has arrested the head of the Shivaji Nagar police station, Mumbai, red-handed on Tuesday night while allegedly accepting a Rs 1 lakh of the total bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh that he had allegedly demanded from a school’s trustee in lieu of providing police services for helping him in a legal matter.
Senior police inspector Bapurao Madhukar Deshmukh, 57, was caught red-handed on Tuesday night at his own police station.
According to the ACB, the complainant in the case is a 41-year-old trustee of a trust that runs a school in the Shivaji Nagar area.
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On August 15, 2024, some people had broken the lock of the gate of the said school and forcibly entered the premises over some dispute. The complainant trustee had ...