Chandigarh cop booked for graft gives CBI the slip again

Former station house officer (SHO) at Manimajra police station, Jaswinder Kaur was booked on June 30 by the CBI for demanding Rs 5 lakh bribe from a Manimajra resident Gurdeep Singh in lieu of not registering a cheating case against him.

Inspector Jaswinder Kaur, who has been on the run since she was booked in a graft case, once again gave the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths the slip on Thursday.

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Former station house officer (SHO) at Manimajra police station, Jaswinder Kaur was booked on June 30 by the CBI for demanding Rs 5 lakh bribe from a Manimajra resident Gurdeep Singh in lieu of not registering a cheating case against him. The CBI had arrested conduit Bhagwan Singh while accepting Rs 1 lakh as part of the bribe amount on June 29.

The CBI on Thursday received a tip-off regarding her whereabouts, but she managed to flee. Her mobile phone was switched off after the CBI had summoned her on June 30.