After a Noida resident levelled bribery fees towards the Sector 113 police station in-charge Jitendra Singh, the officer was sent to police lines on Monday, over his alleged negligence in investigating three circumstances, mentioned senior police officers, including that these circumstances usually are not associated to the bribery grievance.
The Sector 113 police station in-charge was accused of taking a bribe of ₹2.5 lakh from a Parthala village resident in April this yr.
Shakti Avasthy, extra deputy commissioner of police (Noida), mentioned, “The SHO was posted to police lines as he didn’t take motion in a case associated to the loot of an iPhone from a passerby exterior a high-rise society in Sector 120 on August 1,” mentioned Avasthy.
He added that whereas the motion was taken the very day the bribery allegations surfaced, the 2 usually are not associated.
As for the bribery grievance, in accordance to complainant Satish Yadav, the incident occurred on April 9,2023, and he submitted a grievance towards the SHO and subinspector together with video and photographic proof to the Gautam Budh Nagar police commissioner Laxmi Singh on Monday afternoon.
“As a little bit of development work is happening in our home, our subsequent door neighbours alleged that their partitions are cracking due to the work. Over this, on April 9, an argument broke out between my household and our neighbours after which at the least 15 of them assaulted us. We dialled the police helpline quantity 112, and police reached the spot. However as a substitute of choosing them up, they picked up my brother and me and put us within the lock-up,” Yadav mentioned.
He alleged that the police didn’t take motion even after he submitted a grievance towards his neighbours. “It appeared that the station in-charge Jitendra Singh was hand in glove with the opposite social gathering as he pressured me to take again my grievance and attain a compromise with them by paying ₹2 lakh to them and ₹2.5 lakh to him. Once I refused, the officer beat me up and threatened to put me in jail in a false case,” mentioned the 45-year-old.
“The following day, I managed to prepare the money and gave ₹2 lakh to the alternative social gathering and ₹2.5 lakh as bribe to the Sector 113 police station in-charge. Nevertheless, the torture and harassment didn’t finish. Final week, after a member of the family of the opposing social gathering died of a coronary heart assault, the members of the family protested on the Parthala Bridge to strain police into implicating me in his loss of life, following which I used to be once more pressured to pay a bribe by the in-charge to compromise the matter,” mentioned Yadav.
A video in reference to this case was shared on social media on Monday whereby Jitendra Singh is seen sitting on a chair and recording a video throughout the cash transaction being carried out between the complainant and the alternative social gathering.
On Tuesday, sub-inspector Ravindra Kumar, posted because the police post-in-charge of Parthala was additionally suspended in reference to a separate although comparable matter, police mentioned.
“An inquiry was launched right into a case of cross-FIRs registered in April this yr by two events who’re neighbours in Sector 112 and had a dispute that turned violent. The FIR was registered by either side underneath fees of assault and prison intimidation. We had acquired complaints towards Ravindra Kumar for not taking motion within the case following which an inquiry was initiated. He was discovered responsible of negligence and suspended on Tuesday,” mentioned Avasthy.
