IPS officer indicted for demanding Rs 20 lakh bribe to let rape accused off the hook

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: IPS officer Aniruddh Kumar Singh has been indicted for demanding Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the supervisor of a college to let him off the hook in a rape case.

A probe had been ordered after the police officer, who was then posted in Varanasi, was seen demanding Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the rape accused in a video.

The video of Singh demanding the bribe went viral on March 12 when he was posted in Meerut as Additional Superintendent of Police (Meerut Rural). Taking cognisance of the viral video, the then DGP DS Chauhan ordered a probe to be carried out by the then Varanasi police commissioner Mutha Ashok Jain who entrusted the probe to DIG Santosh Kumar. The probe report was handed over to the DGP’s workplace on May 30.

Initially, Singh had maintained that he himself had obtained the video shot to entice the accused. However, after the probe, the declare of Singh remained unsubstantiated.

Principal Secretary, (Home), Sanjay Prasad, stated that prima facie the probe carried out had discovered advantage within the case following which assent was given for additional departmental proceedings in opposition to the IPS officer.

The officer had allegedly talked about within the normal diary that he had needed to entice the accused within the rape case two days later.

LUCKNOW: IPS officer Aniruddh Kumar Singh has been indicted for demanding Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the supervisor of a college to let him off the hook in a rape case.

A probe had been ordered after the police officer, who was then posted in Varanasi, was seen demanding Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the rape accused in a video.

The video of Singh demanding the bribe went viral on March 12 when he was posted in Meerut as Additional Superintendent of Police (Meerut Rural). Taking cognisance of the viral video, the then DGP DS Chauhan ordered a probe to be carried out by the then Varanasi police commissioner Mutha Ashok Jain who entrusted the probe to DIG Santosh Kumar. The probe report was handed over to the DGP’s workplace on May 30.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Initially, Singh had maintained that he himself had obtained the video shot to entice the accused. However, after the probe, the declare of Singh remained unsubstantiated.

Principal Secretary, (Home), Sanjay Prasad, stated that prima facie the probe carried out had discovered advantage within the case following which assent was given for additional departmental proceedings in opposition to the IPS officer.

The officer had allegedly talked about within the normal diary that he had needed to entice the accused within the rape case two days later.