police officer bites constable after caught by vigilance

When state police department is proud for several police officers getting presidential medals on the eve of Indian’s republic day, in same time department has been defamed by few corrupted officers. In Sambalpur a police inspector went to the extend of biting his fellow colleague severely to escape from the spot when after he was caught red handed by the vigilance while taking a bribe Rs.2000/-. However he was arrested latter and sent to the jail. One of his subordinate officer was also arrested for sharing the bribe money.

Sources said, the inspector of Thelkolei police station of the district Pradeep Kumar Das was caught red handed by the vigilance sleuths on Thursday when he was accepting a bribe of Rs. 2000/- from a complaint to release his truck detained by the police. He bit-off the constable Nalini Ranjan Senapati and tried to escape from his grip after he was caught.

“We caught his after he tried to escape biting the constable. A case has been registered. We also arrested his subordinate Subash Bhoi for helping his. Both have been forwarded to the judicial custody”, vigilance inspector of Smabalpur Prabir Tripathy told.

Sources said, police detained a truck in the police station with out any specific ground after the truck met an accident on Jharsuguda road. The owner of the truck J Panigrahi of Sundergarh was asked to give Rs.5000/- to take back his vehicle. . But later police agreed with Rs. 2000/-. The owner how ever informed the vigilance police. "we seized Rs. 1000/- from Das and another Rs.1000/- from SI Subash Bhoi's pocket. So we arrested SI Bhoi also in the same charge", inspector Tripathy told.