6, including SPRF assistant commandant, nabbed by Maha ACB

Six persons, including an assistant commandant of the State Reserve Police Force, were nabbed today for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe from an SRPF assistant sub-inspector, ACB officials said today.

ACB officials said that the complainant was a sportsman and the accused had demanded bribes, totalling Rs 40,000, to exempt him, and seven others, from policing duties so that they could train.

The Kolhapur unit of the ACB today laid a trap at the local SRPF office and nabbed assistant commandant Manohar Gawali, Police Inspector Madhu Sakat along with two assistant sub inspectors, a police constable and a clerk while accepting the bribe amount from the complainant, an official said.

The official said that the complaint, an ASI with SRPF's Group 16 at Daund, was selected for the force's state-level meet for which he had come to Kolhapur.

However, the accused asked him, as well as seven others who had arrived for the meet, a bribe of Rs 5,000 each to exempt them from police duties, the official said.

"The clerk who has nabbed arrested had allegedly demanded a bribe in order to provide dietary allowance to them," he said.

He informed that one of the ASIs booked in this case had also demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh earlier from the complainant.