Chandigarh: Senior IPS officer Inderbir Singh has been named as an accused in an FIR pertaining to an alleged bribery of Rs 10 lakh to let off a suspected drug supplier in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district last year, an officer said on Friday.
The name of Inderbir Singh, a deputy inspector general of police, was added to the FIR registered initially on June 30 last year, Senior Superintendent of Police of Vigilance Bureau (Amritsar Range) Varinder Singh said.
The FIR was registered under sections 213 (taking gift, etc. to screen an offender from punishment), 214 (offering gift or restoration of property in consideration of screening offender), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
