Maharashtra: Tainted cop likely to be sacked after TOI exposé

Ahmed Ali / TNN / Updated: Jul 15, 2021, 08:16 IST

MUMBAI: The state home department is likely to set aside the reinstatement of police inspector Anand Bhoir following a TOI report on Wednesday about the officer getting his job back despite having been caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau accepting a bribe of Rs 22 lakh in 2019. 
Officials said that in April this year Bhoir, who was dismissed from service by the then police commissioner Sanjay Barve in 2019, had filed an appeal before the minister of state for home for his reinstatement. 
In May the MoS for home accepted his plea and reinstated him in the force. He was posted at the control room in the east region. 
“We have taken serious note of the corruption case against Bhoir and are in the process of dismissing him again from service,” a home department official said.