{"id":29399,"date":"2020-07-06T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=29399"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:24:39","slug":"gujarat-woman-sub-inspector-arrested-for-demanding-rs-35-lakh-bribe-from-rape-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=29399","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat: Woman sub-inspector arrested for demanding Rs 35 lakh bribe from rape accused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>A woman police sub-inspector (PSI) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, demanded Rs 35 lakh from a rape accused to not book a case against him.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/crime\/story\/gujarat-ahmedabad-woman-sub-inspector-arrested-fir-bribe-rape-accused-1697287-2020-07-05\">India Today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">woman police sub-inspector (PSI) in Ahmedabad has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35 lakh from a rape accused for not charging him under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An FIR was booked against Ahmedabad-West Mahila police station in-charge Shweta Jadeja for allegedly demanding Rs 35 lakh from a rape accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the FIR, two women employees of a private company in Ahmedabad had filed a rape complaint the company&#8217;s managing director, Kenal Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FIR said that Shweta Jadeja, during the investigation of the case, demanded a bribe of Rs 35 lakh from the accused. She demanded the money for not booking Shah under provisions of the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) Act, where the police can send an accused to a jail outside his native district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shweta Jadeja demanded Rs 35 lakh from the Kenal Shah&#8217;s brother, Bhavesh, against whom she was investigating a rape case registered in 2019. Shweta Jadeja called Bhavesh to demanded the bribe and both sides agreed on Rs 20 lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As per the FIR lodged by the city crime branch, Jadeja accepted Rs 20 lakh through a middleman and demanded an additional Rs 15 lakh from the rape case accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complainant gave Rs 20 lakh to Jadeja in February, and she was forcing him to pay the remaining amount, the FIR said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was arrested on Friday and a case was registered against her under the Prevention of Corruption Act, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was on Saturday produced before a sessions court where police sought her remand for seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court, however, granted three-day remand to the police for further investigation, public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The main point is the police need to recover Rs 20 lakh accepted by the accused. So far, the investigation has revealed the bribe money was accepted by a middleman,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shah is the managing director of a crop solution company in Ahmedabad and is facing two separate rape cases under Indian Penal Code Section 376, one of which was being investigated by Jadeja.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman police sub-inspector (PSI) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, demanded Rs 35 lakh from a rape accused to not book a case against him. India Today woman police sub-inspector (PSI) in Ahmedabad has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 35 lakh from a rape accused for not charging him under the Prevention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}