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NIA DSP Ajay Pratap Singh, who was caught taking bribe of Rs 20 lakh, has been sent on four-day CBI remand. He had demanded a bribe of Rs 3 crore from Rocky, son of former JDU MLC Manorama Devi.
Jayesh Jetawat Hindustan, PatnaSun, 6 Oct 2024 02:14 AM share
NIA’s bribery DSP Ajay Pratap Singh had demanded a bribe of Rs 3 crore by threatening to implicate Rocky Yadav alias Rakesh Ranjan, son of former Janata Dal United (JDU) MLC Manorama Devi. The DSP threatened Rocky to have AK-47 among the weapons recovered from his house and to send him to jail by implicating him by writing his name in the Naxalite leaflet. In return for saving him from this, such a huge amount was demanded from him. The DSP had given this threat to Rocky by calling him to the office of the investigating agency in Patna on 24 September. This has been revealed from the CBI FIR. CBI has given complete details of the bribery scandal in its 29-page FIR.
According to CBI, Rocky had sent a 6-page complaint on October 3 on the e-mail of its headquarters SP in New Delhi. After investigating this, the CBI team arrested the NIA DSP late on Thursday evening while taking bribe. The DSP had threatened that if Rs 3 crore was not paid, Rocky along with his mother Manorama Devi could be immediately arrested and sent to jail.
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The accused DSP asked to give Rs 50 lakh as the first installment of bribe. When Rocky expressed his inability to pay that much money immediately, it was reduced to Rs 25 lakh. This amount was taken on 26 September. Rocky was again called to the NIA office on October 1. DSP asked to give Rs 70 lakh as second installment. The deal was settled at Rs 35 lakh. It was decided to give the remaining Rs 35 lakh on October 3 around Gaya. In this sequence the DSP was arrested. Rocky handed over all the evidence to CBI in a hotel in Patna. It contains audio, video and other documents against the DSP which confirmed the demand for bribe of Rs 3 crore.
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DSP on four days CBI remand
Judge Sunil Kumar-2 of the Patna-based CBI special court on Saturday handed over three accused, including NIA DSP Ajay Pratap Singh, on four-day CBI remand. The investigating agency will interrogate DSP Ajay, his agents Himanshu Singh and Deepu Singh, lodged in Beur jail. The DSP was arrested along with both of them while taking bribe of Rs 20 lakh.
