Mumbai: Rohit Sawant, a Government Railway Police (GRP) officer, has approached the sessions court for anticipatory bail after being booked for allegedly demanding bribes to not implicate a complainant’s brother-in-law in an extortion case.

ACB Alleges Sawant Took Bribe via Lawyer

Sawant was investigating the extortion case where two fake policemen, Nilesh Kalsukar and Pravin Shukla, extorted Rs10 lakh from a garment businessman at Bandra Terminus earlier this month. Following their arrest, Sawant discovered the involvement of Vijay Ingavle, an assistant subinspector with Bandra GRP chowky, who was also arrested. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) alleges that Sawant, through lawyer Arunkumar Singh, demanded Rs10 lakh from the complainant to spare his brother-in-law from arrest. The compl

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