Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Dec 8: Assistant commissioner of police, Anand Kumar of Devanahalli International Airport sub-division, was nabbed by the Lokayukta police while accepting bribe through an agent. Lokayukta additional director general of police, Roopak Kumar Dutta, said that the Lokayukta conducted a raid when the accused was accepting bribe of a lac of rupees from a local man named Narayanaswami.

Anand Kumar, against whom several complaints have reportedly been received by the department from the local people in the past, demanded bribe from Narayanaswami to submit a favourable report in the court, relating to a dispute about landed property Narayanaswami has with another man. The dispute is in the court, and the court had asked the police officials to conduct an inquiry and submit report. Anand Kumar, who initially demanded 25% of the value of the land in question, then scaled down his demand to five lac rupees. Narayanaswami finally agreed to pay a lac of rupees and complained thereafter, to the Lokayukta.

Narayanaswami’s conversation with the ACP in question, promising to pay the bribe on Monday, was recorded by the Lokaykta. When cash was handed over to him, the ACP allegedly asked it to be handed over to a middleman. The Lokayukta police have arrested both the ACP and his middleman.

City police commissioner, Shankar Bidari, said that suspending Anand Kumar was beyond his powers, as action can be taken against the ACP concerned only by either the government or the director general of police.