India, Sept. 28 -- HTC | Jaipur The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday arrested Special Operations Group (SOG) Additional Superintendent of Police Mukesh Kumar Soni on charges of demanding a Rs.2 crore bribe in connection with the investigation into an alleged scam involving 272 municipal plots in Udaipur. The arrest followed the questioning of broker Sajjan Singh Jain, alias Tatla, whom the ACB caught accepting the money on Saturday. Soni was detained the same day. The plot case was registered at Udaipur's Surajpol police station in 2022 and was being investigated by Soni. It concerns allegations that vacant and cancelled plots belonging to the Udaipur Municipal Corporation were occupied and sold using forged documents and lease deeds, allegedly with the involvement of some corporation officials and employees. The complaint also describes a meeting that Jain allegedly arranged between the complainant and Soni in a car parked near an intersection in Udaipur. According to the complainant, Soni sat in the front seat while Jain and the complainant sat in the back. Jain allegedly proposed a payment of Rs.2 crore to settle the matter. The complainant alleged that Soni avoided discussing the bribe directly but wrote "2 crore" on his mobile phone screen and gestured that the matter would be closed. Jain remained in contact with the complainant after the meeting, according to the complaint. ACB director general Govind Gupta said the bureau's Udaipur intelligence unit received a complaint alleging that Jain had demanded Rs.2 crore on Soni's behalf to secure relief for people previously arrested in the plot case. According to the complaint, the money was sought to ensure they were not named as accused in other cases and to obtain the return of documents taken from their homes that had not been formally seized. "ACB officers verified the complaint and confirmed the bribe demand during a conversation," Gupta said. The bureau then arranged a trap at the complainant's factory on September 26, where Jain was caught after allegedly accepting a bag containing Rs.4 lakh in genuine currency and dummy notes representing the remaining Rs.1.96 crore. In the underlying plot case, the SOG arrested former district minority officer Hemlata Kankaria and her husband, Niranjan Mogra, residents of Sukher, on August 4. The ACB said its investigation into the alleged bribe demand is continuing....