Hyderabad, Nov. 4 -- A sub-inspector attached to Bazarhathnoor police station in the Adilabad district was caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday, November 4, for allegedly demanding Rs 40,000 from a complainant to avoid implicating him in a case relating to the death of an unmarried woman.

The accused officer, G. Ramesh, had initially demanded Rs 50,000 and later reduced the amount to Rs 40,000 on the complainant's request.

He allegedly threatened to implicate the complainant in a case registered under Section 194 (death under suspicious circumstances) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), as the deceased woman had reportedly made her last phone call to him before her death.

The SI had also retained the co...