The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption has registered a case against an Inspector and Sub-Inspector in Thanjavur on the charge of demanding a ₹6-crore bribe from a businessmen for not registering a cheating case against him, and receiving ₹10 lakh as an advance.
The DVAC, in its FIR, said the accused police officials dropped the name of the Superintendent of Police, Thanjavur, while demanding ₹1 crore from the businessman for not acting on a cheating complaint and ₹5 crore for protecting him from other complaints for a period of six months.
The case against S. Somasundaram, Inspector of Police, Padanallur police station, Thanjavur district, and then Inspector, Special Branch; and K. Kannan, Sub-Inspector, Tiruvarur, then working in the Boothalur police station in the district, is that they demanded the bribe from M.R. Ganesh, the businessman.
