Ghaziabad, Nov. 21 -- Police in Ghaziabad arrested Crime Branch Inspector Ramesh Singh Sindhu on Friday after he was allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rs 4 lakh.
Officials also recovered the cash from his possession. The businessman who handed over the money, identified as Rahul, was also apprehended while attempting to flee.
The action was carried out by a team led by IPS officer Dhaval Jaiswal, acting on the instructions of Police Commissioner J. Ravindra Gaur.
The bribery is linked to a November 3 seizure of a cough syrup worth Rs 3.5 crore in which the Inspector reportedly took the bribe to protect the accused involved in the case. Sindhu is a 2013-batch officer.
An SIT was formed earlier to probe the illegal cough syrup racket,...