Panchkula: The state vigilance and anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested assistant sub-inspector Jasbir Singh, an investigating officer at the cybercrime police station, Mansa Devi Complex, while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1,15,000 in cash from a complainant.According to the ACB, the complainant, who is engaged in private sanitary trading, had earlier taken a gold loan by pledging his gold with Muthoot Finance Company in Feb 2024. To repay the loan, he contacted Cash Your Gold Company in Sector 20, Panchkula, and on June 12, 2024, the company transferred Rs 5,65,000 to his bank account via RTGS. In return, he was expected to retrieve the pledged gold from Muthoot Finance and hand it over to the company.However, Cash Your Gold Company later filed a complaint against him at the cyber police station in Gurugram, alleging non-compliance.Following this, the complainant began receiving calls from Gurugram police, demanding either the return of the money or the gold. Subsequently, the police froze his and his associates’ bank accounts, suspecting that the transferred Rs 5,65,000 had been moved into known persons’ accounts.The case was later transferred to the cybercrime police station at Mansa Devi Complex, where ASI Jasbir Singh was assigned to verify the complaint. Although Singh assisted in unfreezing the complainant’s bank account, he allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 2,50,000 in exchange for closing the case. After repeated requests from the complainant to reduce the amount, the officer agreed to accept Rs 1,15,000.Acting on the complaint, the bureau laid a trap and caught the ASI red-handed while accepting the bribe. A case has been registered against him under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
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