Police inspector arrested on bribery charge

Vigilance Investigation Bureau (VIB) sleuths today caught Inspector-cum Station House Officer (SHO) of Alauli police station in Khagaria district of Bihar while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000.

Vigilance officials said Inspector Hareram Sah had demanded Rs 30,000 from a person for stopping the construction work by his opposite party on a controversial piece of land.

Sah later agreed to bring down the bribe amount to Rs 20,000 after bargaining, they said.

The officials said that a trap was laid under the leadership of DSP Ram Pukar Singh, who arrested Sah while taking the graft amount at his residential quarters within the premises of the police station.