Deepender Deswal
Tribune News Service
Hisar, June 5
After getting interim bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the suspended Women police station SHO has joined investigation into the alleged running of an extortion racket here.
The Vigilance Bureau (VB) had registered a case against SHO Saroj Bala, her driver Surender and another person, Yogesh, and some other women on May 15.
Officials of the VB caught Surender and Yogesh red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 70,000 from a person to dismiss a complaint of rape against him.
Saroj Bala went into hiding and surfaced only after getting interim bail from the HC on May 29. The HC has stayed her arrest till August 31, while directing her to join the probe in two weeks.
A VB officer said that she had joined the probe on Saturday and submitted some papers. “We have asked her to rejoin the investigation on Monday, but she did not come on some pretexts. However, she did not reply to the queries posed to her. She remained silent most of the time. We gave her written questions and asked her to reply in writing, but she did not give proper replies,” said the officer.
The SHO and her accomplices were booked under Sections 217, 218, 389, 195 (fabricating evidence to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment) and 120-B of the IPC as well as the Prevention of Corruption Act on May 15 by the Vigilance Bureau.
The VB had laid a trap on the complaint of Rajesh, a hotel manager, who came in contact with a Sirsa-based woman on April 26. Later, the woman lodged a complaint of rape against Rajesh at the Women police station. Soon after, SHO Saroj Bala asked Rajesh to meet her and demanded Rs 3 lakh to settle the case. On finding that he had been honey-trapped, Rajesh filed a complaint with the VB about the bribe demanded by the SHO.
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