ACB catches senior Mumbai police inspector while accepting bribe from investment fraud victim

According to ACB, the complainant invested Rs 27.50 lakh with a credit society run by a woman he knew. The woman, who had promised to double his investment, could not fulfil her promise and only returned some money to the complainant. When she failed to give him back Rs 17.50 lakh, the complainant went to the woman’s office in Tilak Nagar to ask her about the rest of the money.

The woman then approached the Tilak Nagar police station and filed a complaint against the man. The staff of Tilak Nagar police station took the man to Bagul who demanded Rs 1 lakh from him to recover his money from the woman, ACB stated.

As the complainant did not want to pay the bribe, he approached ACB and filed a complaint. After ACB duly verified the allegations, its officers set a trap and caught Bagul. They recovered Rs 35,000 from his possession he accepted as a bribe from the complainant, according to a Bureau statement.

Bagul, who is due for retirement in December next, was charged with Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act.