Overview
- The Anti‑Corruption Bureau arrested Head Constable Kavita after she allegedly accepted ₹50,000 to remove two brothers’ names from a dowry‑harassment FIR, officials said Thursday.
- ACB officers used chemically treated currency in a controlled trap and recovered the cash immediately after the handover inside the Manesar women’s police station.
- An FIR was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act and section 308(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for extortion, and the accused was produced in court and given a one‑day remand for questioning.
- Investigators recovered the dowry case file from the station and the local police have started a departmental inquiry, with the Manesar SHO transferred to Police Lines for lack of supervision.
- The case raises concerns about possible tampering with investigation records in dowry cases and the ACB’s next steps will include detailed interrogation and an audit of how the original investigation was handled.