Highlights
- A police inspector in Gujarat was arrested for accepting an iPhone 16 Pro as a bribe.
- The bribe was demanded from a licensed Light Diesel Oil dealer.
Some unique bribery cases have emerged across India where officials were allegedly abusing their positions to demand personal benefits.
Dinesh Kubavat, a police inspector at the Marine police station in Navsari district, Gujarat, has been arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for allegedly demanding and accepting an iPhone 16 Pro worth ₹1.44 lakh as a bribe.
An ACB official explained, “He was caught red-handed while accepting the iPhone 16 Pro device from the complainant, who is a licensed dealer of Light Diesel Oil (LDO) and sells fuel to boat owners at Dholai port.”
Kubavat allegedly summoned the dealer to the police station, demanding a bribe to avoid shutting down the business. According to the official, “Kubavat had recently asked the dealer to meet him at Marine police station with licence and other documents related to his business. During the meeting, he threatened the complainant that his business would be shut if he did not give a bribe. The Navsari unit of ACB held him in a trap laid in his police station chamber.”
In a separate incident in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh, a doctor was booked for allegedly demanding a bribe of ₹50,000 to release the post-mortem report of a drowning victim. The accused, Dr Arpit Kumar Nayak (29), serves as a medical officer at a community health centre.
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Deputy Superintendent of Police Praveen Singh Baghel stated, “He sought a bribe of ₹50,000 from the kin of a man who drowned in a pond. The amount was later reduced to ₹40,000. We laid a trap but he refused to take the amount from the complainant after getting suspicious.”
And that’s not all.
In Uttar Pradesh, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a Senior Section Engineer (SSE) at the Truck Depot of Indian Railways in Gonda for accepting a bribe of ₹50,000.
The CBI noted, “The CB arrested an accused SSE, P. Way, Truck Depot, Indian Railways, Gonda (Uttar Pradesh) for demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹50,000 from the complainant.”
These incidents highlight persistent issues with corruption across various sectors in India.
FAQs
Q1. Why was police inspector Dinesh Kubavat arrested in Gujarat?
Answer. The Gujarat Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Dinesh Kubavat for demanding and accepting an iPhone 16 Pro worth ₹1.44 lakh as a bribe from a licensed Light Diesel Oil dealer.
Q2. What other recent bribery cases in India?
Answer A doctor in Madhya Pradesh demanded a ₹50,000 bribe to release a post-mortem report and a Senior Section Engineer in Uttar Pradesh accepted a ₹50,000 bribe from a complainant.
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