Absconding ACP surrenders, sent to 4-day CBI custody

New Delhi, Feb 21 (UNI) Absconding Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) of the Crime Branch Rakesh Bansal, involved in a bribery case, today surrendered before the Patiala House Courts here.

The ACP was sent to four-day CBI custody by the court, according to the CBI.

Rakesh Kumar Bansal, an Assistant Commissioner with the Crime Branch was charged under 'bribery' for accepting Rs 1.5 lakh bribe, along with Sub-Inspector Jagdish Kumar from a businessman by the CBI on January 31.

While Sub-Inspector Jagdish Kumar was arrested in the CBI 'trap', ACP R K Bansal had been absconding ever since.

Both the accused were posted with the Anti-Extortion and Robbery Cell of the Crime Branch here.

Rs 2.25 lakh cash, property papers of three flats in Gurgaon, Dwarka and Rohini, jewellery worth five lakhs and 40 bottles of expensive whisky were recovered during raids from the Kingsway Camp residence of ACP Bansal.

Even as two shops -- in Rajinder Nagar amd Mukherjee Nagar -- were found in his wife's name, four lockers were found in the name of the ACP.

The CBI registered a case against the two after a local businessman alleged that the ACP and SI were harrassing him on the basis of a complaint made by one of his business associates and demanding Rs 15 lakh as bribe.

UNI