Maharashtra: Beed traffic cop suspended for abusing colleagues on duty, threatening to assault them

A traffic police constable from Beed district in Maharashtra was suspended on Monday for allegedly abusing and threatening his colleagues while on duty an official said reported the PTIThe cop was identified as Siddhant Gore He was posted with the Beed city traffic branch officials saidThey said that he is accused of abusing his colleagues on Saturday evening following a trivial argument the official added reported news agency PTIldquoAfter CCTV footage confirmed the misconduct allegations against Gore he was placed under suspension by Beed Superintendent of Police Navneet Kanwat The inquiry into the incident was carried out by Assistant Inspector Subhash Sanap Gore had been dismissed from service in an earlier case but was reinstated following an order by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal MATrdquo the official added reported PTITwo Wadala TT cops caught taking bribe by ACB dismissed from serviceIn a similar incident in a rare move under Article 3112b of the Constitution of India Maharashtra Director General of Police DGP Rashmi Shukla dismissed two police officers from Mumbairsquos Wadala TT Police Stationmdasha senior inspector and a subinspectormdashwho were earlier caught redhanded by the AntiCorruption Bureau ACB for accepting bribes in a dispute caseSenior Police Inspector Chandrakant Sudhakar Sarode 52 and Police SubInspector Rahul Ramesh Waghmode 37 were arrested by the ACB in September after they allegedly demanded and accepted illegal gratification from a complainant involved in a community hall disputeAccording to the ACB the complainant a 59yearold man approached the bureau after the officers allegedly sought bribes to ensure his daughter was not named as an accused in a Thane police case filed by a rival group PSI Waghmode allegedly demanded Rs 50000 for himself and Rs 5 lakh for Sarode and had already accepted Rs 20000 on September 10 and another Rs 30000 later during verificationOn September 26 Sarode was caught accepting Rs 2 lakhmdashthe first instalment of the Rs 4 lakh bribe he had agreed to takemdashwhile Waghmode had already collected Rs 30000 earlier Both were caught redhanded in an ACB trap in the presence of five witnessesFollowing their arrest the duo was immediately suspended However a fresh dismissal order issued by DGP Rashmi Shukla has now removed both officers from service with immediate effectThe order cites their conduct as a ldquoconscious betrayal of public trustrdquo and states that a departmental inquiry was deemed ldquonot reasonably practicablerdquo due to their influence intimidation and ldquodeeprooted connectionsrdquo within the police establishment It further notes that Sarode had a history of previous departmental punishments including a prior suspension in a 2001 corruption case registered in Nagpur city under the Prevention of Corruption ActldquoTheir actions amount to grave misconduct gross dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming of police officersrdquo the order states adding that their dismissal was necessary ldquoin the larger public interestrdquoWith PTI inputs