Three Delhi police personnel were sentenced to three years in jail by a city court for conspiring and abusing their official position to intimidate a man to pay a bribe of `7,500 around 11 years ago.
Special judge Padam Kant Saxena convicted Ramesh Kumar, Nagender Nath Tiwari and Haripal Balu, who were sub-inspector, head constable and constable respectively in the crime branch of the Delhi police at the time of the incident.
The three accused “had entered into a criminal conspiracy to demand illegal gratification amounting to `7,500 from the complainant and in order to extort that amount Accused 1 (Ramesh) and Accused 3 (Balu) had abused their official position, extended threats to the complainant and his son...” the court said convicting them for criminal conspiracy and under various provisions of Prevention of Corruption Act.
The case dates back to year 1999 when west Delhi resident Jarnail Singh filed a complaint that he had sent his brother-in-law Sodi Ram to Dubai in June 1999 through M/s Trehan International with the help of Haripal Balu, who was a driver of ACP crime branch R.K. Puram.