Jammu, March 10 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday arrested a policeman for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a person in Reasi district, an official said.

Head Constable Parvaiz Ahmad Bhati, a resident of Mandhar, was trapped following a complaint that he was demanding the illegal gratification to drop certain sections of law in a case registered against the complainant, a spokesperson of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said.

He said the accused public servant, posted in police post Talwara, demanded the bribe from the complainant for manipulating the course of the investigation in the case.

As the complainant did not wish to pay the bribe, he approached the ACB and accordingly, a discreet verification was conduct...