4 BMC ‘nuisance detectors’ trapped, arrested for taking a bribe

Their official designation reads Nuisance Detectors’ and they are officers attached to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), whose job it is to haul up people who litter or urinate on roads and bring them to task. On Saturday morning, however, the Mumbai Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested four of them for attempting to extort money from a vendor at Carter Road in Bandra.

The arrested officers, attached to the Bandra H (West) ward, have been identified as Chandrakant Pawar, Deepak Kamble, Chandrakant Lad and Chandrakant Pawai. They have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

“On March 3, we received a complaint from Raju Pande, the vendor, saying that the officers were harassing him as he did not have a license to operate on the road. He said that they had been regularly extorting Rs 1,000 from him for the past six months, to allow him to do business,” said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, ACB, Vilas Tupe.

The ACB, after verifying the complaint, laid a trap and caught the officers red handed.

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