| For ‘allowing’ cattle smuggling, SHO getting huge bribe | | Cash being deposited in his friend’s bank account | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 24: For allegedly allowing cattle smuggling, a police officer, who is posted as SHO of a police station in a peripheral area of the city, has been getting a huge amount of bribe money which is being deposited by smugglers in his friend’s bank account.
He chose his friend’s bank account to receive the bribe money to avoid the attention of the anti-graft agencies, police sources alleged.
The SHO was tough against cattle smugglers in the beginning, but he later allegedly joined hands with them. For the last 2-3 months, no case of cattle smuggling was registered at the police station notwithstanding the fact that the illegal activity had picked up in his area, sources alleged.
For allowing them to carry milch animals unlawfully from his area of jurisdiction, the smugglers were paying to the SHO a huge bribe amount which was being deposited by them directly in his friend’s bank account, sources alleged.
The SHO had instructed the smugglers not to come to the police station to meet him or pay him cash as this could create a problem for him. For depositing the bribe money, he did not give them the number of his bank account and instead asked them to deposit it in the bank account of his friend, sources alleged.
“Though the bank account is in his friend’s name, his mobile number is there in the bank records which is why he gets SMS from the bank as soon as the smugglers deposit the bribe money in the account. It is the SHO who has been virtually operating this account,” sources said.
He had three cellphone numbers. “One was to exclusively speak to the cattle smugglers while the other was for some special people. The third number was for relatives, friends and other acquaintances,” sources said. |
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