Chandigarh: IPS officer Deshraj Singh gets three-year jail in corruption case

In the court Deshraj took two pleas that he never accepted the money and Anokh had kept it at his house while he had gone to the other room.

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CHANDIGARH: Six years after he was caught taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from a Station House officer (SHO), IPS officer Deshraj Singh was on Friday sentenced to three years in jail by a special CBI court here.

The 2008-batch IPS officer, posted as SP (City) in 2012 in Chandigarh, was caught red-handed by the sleuths of the apex agency. He had allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh from then SHO of Sector 26 Police Station, Anokh Singh. On Wednesday, the court had held Deshraj guilty in this case. The CBI had booked him under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Deshraj Singh had demanded the money from Anokh Singh to dispose of an inquiry for dereliction of duty and insubordination that he himself had marked against the inspector.

As per the CBI charge sheet, Deshraj had said that he would change his statement and would not take action against Singh.

In the court, Deshraj pleaded that he had never accepted the money. However, CBI counsel KP Singh asked how had the forensic report proved that his hands had touched the money, which was smeared with phenolphthalein powder.