Parmesh S Jain
In a major embrassment,the Chandra Layout police have arrested head constable working in their own station for stealing Rs.10 lakh from a realtor during his arrest recently.
The accused has been identified as,Mahendra Gowda.
Senior officer told reporters,The accused Mahendra Gowda has been booked under theft and remanded to judicial custody before he was suspended from duty by the jurisdictional DCP Laxman B Nimbargi.
Mahendra Gowda has caught Lingesh,a relator of Channapattana along with his associates with the unaccounted cash of Rs.50 lakh .
Lingesh and his asosciates had come to exchange demonetized currency when they were intercepted by Mahendra Gowda and his colleagues .
While Lingesh and others were taken to the station Mahendra Gowda while carrying a cash bag and stolen Rs.10 lakh and sent it off to his house,before reaching the station.
Meanwhile after Lingesh and others were booked under various sections of KP act and released on station bail .
Lingesh came to know that cash of Rs.10 lakh is missing and filed a complaint with the senior police officer suspecting the role of Mahendra Gowda behind the missing cash.
Based on the complaint the police questioned Mahendra Gowda who eventually confessed to the crime.Based on his confession the police recovered the cash and arrested him.
This is the third incident where police personnel were involved in corrupt practices in the last one week .
Few days ago five policemen including two PSIs and three constables were suspended pending departmental inquiry for robbing a businessman in a case related to cricket betting racket .
The Lokayukta police trapped a head constable attached to Chikkajala police station red handed while accepting bribe from a businessman promised to drop the charges leveled against him in a property dispute case.
