Bathinda, Oct. 2 -- Five days after being arrested by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau for accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000, Punjab Police inspector Sunita Rani was dismissed from service on Thursday.

She was posted as station house officer (SHO) at the Kot Isse Khan police station in Moga district.

Rani and her gunman, Home Guard jawan Guravtar Singh, were nabbed red-handed by a team of the Ferozepur range of the Vigilance Bureau while accepting a bribe on September 26.

Both were charged for allegedly threatening a person, implicating him in a drug smuggling case and extorting money from him.

In his report, Moga senior superintendent of police (SSP) Sartaj Singh Chahal informed Faridkot inspector general of police (IGP) Nilambari Jagadale a...