Overview

• Officials say nine or ten personnel, including SDOP Pooja Pandey, have been suspended, and Pandey has been attached to police headquarters in Bhopal.
• IG Pramod Verma assigned Jabalpur Additional SP Ayush Gupta to investigate and requested a detailed report within three days.
• Seoni SP Sunil Kumar Mehta said Bandol police and SDOP staff intercepted a four-wheeler in the Siladehi forest and allegedly assaulted the driver before taking the cash.
• The driver and the businessman who sent the money reported the incident at Kotwali police station the next morning, prompting higher-level action.
• Reports cite Rs 1.45 crore as the suspected hawala amount, though some officials claim the vehicle carried over Rs 2.96 crore, which investigators aim to verify.