Officials tight-lipped on bribery charge by cop’s wife

Tweet

Raipur, Feb 11: Chhattisgarh Police remained tight-lipped Saturday over allegations by the wife of an injured police official that he remained posted in the Maoist-affected belt for over a decade as he could not pay bribe to his seniors.

Radha Marawi, wife of Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) B.S. Marawi, levelled the charge here Friday outside a hospital where her husband was admitted after being injured in an ambush by Maoists.

The police official was among the six police personnel attacked by the Maoists Thursday on a forest road in the newly formed Sukma district. Two policemen were killed on the spot.

Radha Marawi alleged her husband was posted in the Maoist heartland for 10 years as he was unable to pay bribe to seniors – which was necessary in the state to get a posting outside the rebel-affected zone.

Sources at the police headquarters here said that Radha Marawi had largely bared facts of the prevailing system where policemen paid money to seniors to evade posting in the Maoist-affected areas.

“She (Radha) has probably bared facts,” a police officer, who did not want to be named, told IANS.

“There are dozens of cases where police officers from the rank of assistant sub-inspector to ASP have been serving in the Maoist-affected zone for years. Their requests to get out of the troubled area are rejected without any valid reason,” the officer said.

IANS