PI, API among three in judicial custody for corruption

A police inspector, an assistant police inspector and a constable arrested by the the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s (ACB) Pune unit for demanding and accepting a bribe to give a favourable submission in court in order to secure the release of the complainant’s uncle who was in judicial custody in a case of cheating, were remanded judicial custody by a local court in Pune. The accused have been sent to Yerwada jail after the court issued the order.

The three were remanded to three days in police custody by a local court in Pune on Sunday till March 10.

The three were identified as PI Arvind Daulat Chaudhury (50), API Praful Prabhakar Kadam (33) and Hawaldar Mahesh Vinayak Daundkar (39), according to a statement issued by ACB.

Among the three officials, the complainant claimed that he had paid ₹1,00,000 in cash near his office along Pune-Mumbai road. The ACB officials had set a trap in order to catch the officials in the act.

“The accusation against the accused has been falsely implicated. The complainant has a grudge against accused number 2 (Prafull Prabhakar Kadam) was the investigating officer in the crime that is mentioned in the FIR. The complainant has a grudge against the officer as he was also investigating a non-cognizable case against him,” said advocate Amol Dange representing the API.