Early Times Report
JAMMU, Nov 27: A minister of the coalition government has reprimanded the SHO of a police station in Jammu region for allegedly harassing and threatening some scrap dealers to create problems for them in case they refuse to meet his demand of increasing the bribe money which they are already paying him.
The SHO called at least six industrialists, who mainly deal in scrap, to the police station a few days back and asked them to increase the bribe money which they were already paying him every month, police sources alleged.
He allegedly threatened to create problems for them and told them that he won't let them work in case they failed to concede his demand. Later, when the SHO started exerting pressure on them and teasing them for no fault of theirs, all of them approached a minister and narrated him the whole incident, sources said.
Taking a serious note of it, the minister immediately called up the SHO and rebuked him for his allegedly increasing corrupt practices. He threatened to get him transferred to some far-flung area of the state from where it could take him a week to reach home, sources informed.
The minister also reprimanded him for allegedly promoting unlawful activities in the areas that fall under his jurisdiction. "After this alleged reprimand and warning, the SHO has maintained a complete silence and hardly comes out of the police station nowadays," sources said.
"He is quite thick with some senior police officers as a result of which he often disobeys the orders of his DSP and other seniors," sources alleged, saying that he had been running the thana in his own style without caring for anyone. |
