Delhi police SI jailed for taking Rs 1 lakh bribe
15 March 2013 6:19 AM IST
A Delhi police sub-inspector has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by a court for demanding Rs 1 lakh bribe from a businessman to keep him out of an inquiry in a false murder case.
‘Corruption is totally intolerable in public service and does not deserve any sympathy or leniency,’ Special CBI Judge Rajiv Mehra said while sentencing Ajay Bali, a Sub Inspector Delhi Police, to three years in jail while awarding one year jail imprisonment to co-accused Arun Sharma who had collected money on his behalf.
While holding Bali guilty, the court said, ‘he was a young officer of a disciplined force. It is unfortunate that at the initial years of his bright career he has been found involved in such like activities of corruption forcing the public for whose services the force is meant for, to spill out the bribe amount by keeping them under threat to falsely implicate in a criminal case.’
In 2005, Bali was posted as a sub-inspector at a police station in east Delhi. He had made an illegal demand of Rs 1 lakh from businessman Rajesh Arora, who was running a furniture showroom to keep him out from the inquiry of a murder case, according to CBI.
Bali had also demanded a sofa towards part of the bribe amount and the same was delivered at his residence.
Arora made a complaint with the CBI which laid a trap and went to the furniture store where Bali had sent co-accused Sharma to collect the remaining Rs 70,000 payment.
‘Corruption is totally intolerable in public service and does not deserve any sympathy or leniency,’ Special CBI Judge Rajiv Mehra said while sentencing Ajay Bali, a Sub Inspector Delhi Police, to three years in jail while awarding one year jail imprisonment to co-accused Arun Sharma who had collected money on his behalf.
While holding Bali guilty, the court said, ‘he was a young officer of a disciplined force. It is unfortunate that at the initial years of his bright career he has been found involved in such like activities of corruption forcing the public for whose services the force is meant for, to spill out the bribe amount by keeping them under threat to falsely implicate in a criminal case.’
In 2005, Bali was posted as a sub-inspector at a police station in east Delhi. He had made an illegal demand of Rs 1 lakh from businessman Rajesh Arora, who was running a furniture showroom to keep him out from the inquiry of a murder case, according to CBI.
Bali had also demanded a sofa towards part of the bribe amount and the same was delivered at his residence.
Arora made a complaint with the CBI which laid a trap and went to the furniture store where Bali had sent co-accused Sharma to collect the remaining Rs 70,000 payment.
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