Cop, accomplice in bribery case arrested after surrender

A suspended policeman and his accomplice, who were on the run in a Rs 50-lakh bribery case, were arrested here today, after they surrendered at the Anti-Corruption Bureau's (ACB) Worli office, police said.
Suspended Khar police station Assistant Police Inspector Subhash Samant and his accomplice Harpreet Singh Arora surrendered before the ACB today, after which they were arrested, Assistant Police Commissioner Rajesh Bagakote told PTI.
"They were produced before a court which remanded them to police custody until August 16," the police official said.
On August 5, the ACB booked Samant, police inspector Mahendra Nerlekar of Khar police station and three individuals, namely Arora, Mahesh Kamble and Robin Gonsalves in a bribery case. Later, the two cops were suspended.

Inspector Nerlekar surrendered before the ACB last Monday, while Kamble and Gonsalves are still at large.
On August 5, the ACB had laid a trap for Samant, but he fled by jumping from the first floor of his Carter Road flat in suburban Bandra West, along with Rs 20,000 cash and a few property documents.
According to a complaint filed by an estate agent, Samant and Nerlekar had allegedly demanded Rs 50 lakh as well as the deed of a Bandra property to "settle" a rape complaint against him, which turned out to be a fake case, the police said.

They told the estate agent that a 20-year-old woman had filed an application, alleging that the agent had spiked her drink and gangraped her, the police said.