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Meerut: A woman police officer has been suspended after an army jawan recorded the officer demanding Rs 1 lakh bribe to remove the name of army man from an FIR in the dowry case.
The accused officer has been identified as Monika Jindal, SHO of the women’s police station in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.Sub-Inspector Ritu Kalja has also been suspended in connection with the case. She had been investigating the dowry case. Both the police officers have been named in the FIR for bribery.A departmental inquiry has also been ordered against the two officers. The FIR has been filed on the instructions of Meerut SSP Prabhakar Chaudhary, according to a report in Hindi daily Hindustan.
Both the women police officers are absconding. A woman from Chhur village in Sardhana had filed an FIR about dowry harassment against her in-laws. The army jawan named Sumit, who is the brother-in-law of the woman, was also named in the FIR.
Sumit is currenty posted in Nagaland.
The two officers Monika and Jindal demanded Rs 1 lakh to remove Sumit’s name from the FIR. Initially, Sumit gave Rs 35,000 to the policemen and recorded the video of the conversation.Sumit later approached Meerut SSP who ordered a probe by SP (Rural) Keshav Kumar. The two officers were found guilty in the probe following which a case was registered against them and both were suspended. “A complaint was made along with a video in the case. A case has now been filed following a probe. The two officers have been suspended,” said SSP Meerut, Prabhakar Chaudhary.
