The Punjab vigilance bureau on Thursday arrested assistant inspector normal of police (AIG) Ashish Kapoor, a PPS officer now posted as commandant, 4th IRB, Pathankot, for taking a bribe of 1 crore by way of totally different checks. Deputy superintendent of police, intelligence, Pawan Kumar and ASI Harjinder Singh have additionally been named accused.

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A VB spokesperson mentioned in Chandigarh that the bureau has registered a case below Sections 7 and 7-A of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Sections 420 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code towards the accused.

He mentioned throughout his posting because the superintendent at Central Jail, Amritsar, in 2016, Kapoor had obtained acquired with a girl inmate, Poonam Rajan of Sector 30, Kurukshetra, who was in judicial remand in a case.

Poonam, alongside along with her mom Prem Lata, brother Kuldeep Singh and sister-in-law Preeti, was additionally in police remand in a case, FIR No. 151/2018, registered below Section 420/120-B of the IPC at Zirakpur police station. Kapoor went to the police station and fraudulently satisfied Poonam’s mom Prem Lata to assist her get bail and acquittal from the courtroom.

Kapoor, in connivance with Pawan Kumar, the then SHO of the Zirakpur police station, and ASI Harjinder Singh obtained Preeti declared harmless within the case. In lieu of that favour, Kapoor obtained signatures of Prem Lata on totally different checks amounting to 1 crore and deposited them below the names of his identified folks and obtained them encashed by way of ASI Harjinder Singh.

During the Congress regime, Kapoor was posted as AIG, VB. His title not too long ago cropped up within the forest rip-off being probed by the VB through which senior officers of the forest division and two former ministers have been booked.