Mumbai: Tainted ACP Sujata Patil suspended from force
MUMBAI: The home department on Friday suspended a decorated woman cop, assistant commissioner of police Sujata Patil, after she was caught red-handed taking a Rs 40,000 bribe earlier this month.
The home department on Friday issued her suspension order, following a report sent by the ACB to Mumbai police. The report was first sent to the DGP, who forwarded it to the home department, since Patil is an officer of the class one rank. As per the suspension order, she will receive her salary.
Patil has been in the news earlier as well, for better reasons. She has been appreciated for practising fasts during the holy month of Ramzan every year. But she has courted controversy too, in the past, for her poem condemning the vandals of Amar Jawan Jyoti Memorial during the Azad Maidan riots in 2012. The poem was criticised for allegedly fanning communalism.
She was recently promoted to the post of ACP in the Meghwadi division. The complainant in the bribery case owns a 220 sq ft gala in Jogeshwari. Patil had allegedly demanded Rs 1 lakh from him to take action against trespassers on his property.
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