11-23-2006, 01:42 AM
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[ 23 Nov, 2006 0139hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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MUMBAI: Mumbai police have gone hi-tech. They now take 'Any Time Bribes'in keeping with technological advances. Two officers from NM Joshi Marg police station recently took a suspect from the lock-up to a UTI ATM in Mahim and forced him to withdraw Rs 25,000 and hand it over to them. They were finally caught accepting second instalment of the bribe on Wednesday.
Share market franchisee Ravi Kumar Guthi's crime was that he introduced a former employer and garment exporter Dhanraj Rajpal to a supplier Shivananth Vadival from Tamil Nadu. A deal was struck and Rajpal paid an advance of Rs 1.20 lakh for a consignment but when the garments were ready, he rejected them for their inferior quality and demanded his money back.
Rajpal lodged a complaint of cheating against Vadival and Guthi with NM Joshi Marg police. A team was sent to Tamil Nadu as the suspects were in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu.
"They had not got any arrest warrant so Vadival slipped out of their hands. But they got me here by saying they will remove my name from the case," Guthi told TOI.
On November 3, Guthi was arrested and booked for cheating, fraud and breach of trust and misappropriation of Rs 1.20 lakh. Investigating officer Prashant Pandit then promised to get him bail if he paid Rs 50,000. From N M Joshi Marg (formerly Delisle Road) in Lower Parel, Pandit's colleague officer-on-probation Jagdish Giri took him in a taxi all the way to Mahim to an ATM to withdraw the money. "I pointed many ATMs on way, but they wanted an ATM without a CCTV. And they knew Mahim had one," said Guthi.
Two days later, Guthi was shocked to find the police seeking custody despite taking a bribe of Rs 25,000. "It was because I had not paid the remaining Rs 25,000," Guthi said. The court granted police custody till November 10 after which he was released on bail but asked to report to the police station everyday.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/In...002,curpg-2.cms
[ 23 Nov, 2006 0139hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates
MUMBAI: Mumbai police have gone hi-tech. They now take 'Any Time Bribes'in keeping with technological advances. Two officers from NM Joshi Marg police station recently took a suspect from the lock-up to a UTI ATM in Mahim and forced him to withdraw Rs 25,000 and hand it over to them. They were finally caught accepting second instalment of the bribe on Wednesday.
Share market franchisee Ravi Kumar Guthi's crime was that he introduced a former employer and garment exporter Dhanraj Rajpal to a supplier Shivananth Vadival from Tamil Nadu. A deal was struck and Rajpal paid an advance of Rs 1.20 lakh for a consignment but when the garments were ready, he rejected them for their inferior quality and demanded his money back.
Rajpal lodged a complaint of cheating against Vadival and Guthi with NM Joshi Marg police. A team was sent to Tamil Nadu as the suspects were in Tirupur in Tamil Nadu.
"They had not got any arrest warrant so Vadival slipped out of their hands. But they got me here by saying they will remove my name from the case," Guthi told TOI.
On November 3, Guthi was arrested and booked for cheating, fraud and breach of trust and misappropriation of Rs 1.20 lakh. Investigating officer Prashant Pandit then promised to get him bail if he paid Rs 50,000. From N M Joshi Marg (formerly Delisle Road) in Lower Parel, Pandit's colleague officer-on-probation Jagdish Giri took him in a taxi all the way to Mahim to an ATM to withdraw the money. "I pointed many ATMs on way, but they wanted an ATM without a CCTV. And they knew Mahim had one," said Guthi.
Two days later, Guthi was shocked to find the police seeking custody despite taking a bribe of Rs 25,000. "It was because I had not paid the remaining Rs 25,000," Guthi said. The court granted police custody till November 10 after which he was released on bail but asked to report to the police station everyday.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/In...002,curpg-2.cms