Pramesh S Jain
Former Inspector of Byatarayanapura station and a middleman has been booked for recovering money from a theft case in return of monitory benefit and also used the seized cash for his personal use in September last year .
The incident came to light when the inspector was transferred to different station and his officer replaced him checked for the seized money.
Based on the report,Bharath S Reddy,Assistant Commissioner of police, Byatarayanapura 
sub division, who probed the matter,filed a case against the Inspector,Shankar Naik G K and Lokanath Singh,a middleman charging them under Prevention of Corruption Act,Criminal breach of trust and forgery against them on Wednesday.
Mr.Reddy in his complaint said that Lokanath singh has offered Naik to recover the money stolen by driver of a businessman and promised to get Rs.20 lakh.
As per the deal,Naik took up the case despite the incident did not come under his jurisdiction by getting the FIR with a false details and recovered Rs.75 lakh from Santosh, driver of Harish.
Even though the then ACP directed the inspector to deposit the seized money in government treasury,the accused inspector,misused it until he was transferred in January this year.
The newly appointed inspector Ninganagowda A Patil, found the cash was not deposited and questioned Naik, for which he came to the station with the bag full of cash and handed over to the Inspector .
The handing over the cash was recorded in the CCTV of the station and some of the currency bundles even had a seal of bank which indicated that the cash was withdrawn from the bank to return.
The inquiry revealed that Naik had not only investigated the case which was out of his jurisdiction but also misused the seized cash for his personal use.
This is the second incident where PSI attached to Madiwala was arrested by CCB for abducting director of a private company to recover the money on behest of private parties.
The PSI and his associates,a Police Constable and a home guard were offered cash to recover the money in return of misusing the power,the CCB officials said .
