Missing Jhotwara ACP suspended over graft

Jaipur | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

Summary:

Jaipur: Troubles seem to be mounting for absconding Jhotwara ACP Aash Mohammad who was suspended on Saturday by the state government after his name appeared in a bribery case being probed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau ( ACB ).Aash Mohammad has been evading the ACB ever since a constable of Jhotwara police station was arrested along with a middleman and a lawyer on Wednesday night.ACB officers said the role of Aash Mohammad, assistant commissioner of police, Jhotwara and Pradeep Charan, SHO, Jhotwara, was under the scanner as they appeared to be the facilitator and key beneficiary of the corruption nexus.Battu Khan, the reader of Jhotwara police station, was suspended, while the SHO was sent to lines by the Jaipur police commissionerate on Wednesday.The agency has arrested Khan for accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh for allegedly acting on two criminal cases by flouting investigation rules along with a middleman and an assistant public prosecutor..