Senior IPS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre Pramod Kumar was on Wednesday arrested in New Delhi by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly entering into a criminal conspiracy to get a bribe of nearly Rs. 10 crore from a private firm accused of duping the public of more than Rs. 800 crore.
Mr. Kumar, a 1989-batch IPS officer, was arrested by the CBI from his apartment in South Delhi and produced before a judge in New Delhi who sent him to a transit remand. He would be produced before a designated court in Chennai on Thursday.
The accused officer has been on the run for many months.
His anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Madras High Court on April 20, 2012.
The case was initially cracked by the Crime Branch of Tamil Nadu Police when they arrested an inspector who had allegedly carried the bribe money for Mr. Kumar.
The case was handed over to the CBI on the orders of Madras High Court after which agency filed two cases. The first case was against directors of Paazee Forex K. Mohanraj, Kathiravan and A. Kamalavalli for allegedly cheating investors Rs. 829 crore of promised returns and dividends.
They have been charged under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy, cheating, provisions of The Prize Chits And Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978 and the Tamil Nadu Protection of Interests of Depositors Act, 1997.
The second case arose after Ms. Kamalavalli allegedly went missing on December 8, 2009 alleging harassment by the police, CBI sources said.
The probe revealed that Mr. Kumar the then Inspector General West Zone had allegedly demanded Rs. 10 crore from the accused directors of the company through the investigating officer who is claimed to be handpicked by him, they said.
The CBI has charged him with abusing his official position when he was Inspector General of Police of West Zone, Coimbatore, and making his subordinates and accomplices extort Rs. 2.85 crore, deposited by the public, from the Paazee Group of Companies.
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