Six years, three judges later, two cops guilty of graft

CHANDIGARH: After being transferred from three judges and heard before each, the 2013 corruption case against Haryana cops Jagdish Ram and Jitender Kumar ended in a guilty verdict on Thursday here.
Additional district and sessions judge Sushil Kumar ordered both men in khaki to be taken into custody. The quantum of sentence will be out on Friday. In May 2013, the vigilance department of the UT police had caught Haryana police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Jagdish Ram red-handed with Rs 1-lakh bribe from the parking lot of Leisure Valley in Sector 10.He was then on the chief minister’s security team at his Sector 2 residence.

The charge sheet says he accepted this money on behalf of ASI Jatinder Kumar, station house officer (SHO) of the CIA (crime investigation agency) branch in Kaithal. Complainant Gurmeet Singh of Chandigarh’s Mauli Jagran village was promised a favour in a case of cheating and immigration fraud.
Graft: Cop had sought Rs 13 lakh
The complainant got the vigilance department to lay a trap for Jagdish,whohaddemanded Rs 13 lakh. Gurmeet had paid him Rs 5 lakh for Jatinder already. In six years, the case went to threecourts andwasdecidedfinally in the special vigilance court. First, it went from district and sessions judge S K Aggarwal to additional sessions judge Ajit Atri on April 30, 2016, and then to ASJ Rajiv Goel on April 29, 2017. And then it reached ADSJ Sushil Kumar on January 19, 2019.It was completed in the special designated court to deal with vigilance cases.