Pramesh S Jain & Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
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even policemen including an Inspector,two Sub Inspectors,a head constable and three constables working in two different stations have been booked abetting a betting racket and accepting bribe in separate incidents .
While five policemen attached to Sadashivnagar police station have been suspended.
Meanwhile the Lokayukta sleuths in a separate incident trapped a Head constable of Chikkajala red handed while accepting bribe.
According to a senior police official,in the first incident,all the five suspended policemen including 3 constabulary and 2 PSIs are linked to a cricket betting racket.
Their involvement came to light during the raid carried out on the betting racket.
Preliminary investigations revealed their links and hence the accused police personnel were suspended and detailed departmental inquiry is ordered,a senior police officer said .
In second incident,the Lokayukta sleuths arrested Head constable,Ravi S while he was accepting a bribe from the accused of a civil dispute case.
During investigation it was found that the Ravi had taken Rs.3.7 lakh bribe from,Devaraju, promising to drop the charges against him.
Ravi told Devaraju that he had to pay Rs.50,000 to Inspector, Praveen Rao and Rs.30,000 to two writers of the station as part of the deal.
However he state demanding an additional ₹ 5 lakh from Devaraju following which he approached the lokayukta police and filed a complaint .
Based on the complaint a team of police trapped Ravi while the Inspector managed to escape .
The accused Head constable has been booked under Prevention of Corruption Act and taken into custody for further investigations and hunt is on to nab the police inspector who is on run said a senior lokayukta officer.
