India, July 4 -- Faridkot deputy superintendent of police (DSP), crimes against women cell, Rajanpal Singh was arrested for offering a bribe of Rs.1 lakh to the reader of senior superintendent of police (SSP) Pragya Jain on Friday.

The accused had approached the SSP's personal staff to bury a complaint of corruption against him.

SSP Jain said the case against Rajanpal was registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act at the Faridkot city police station.

Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Jaswinder Singh, the reader to the SSP, is the complainant in the case.

On May 24, SSP Jain had assigned a complaint of a matrimonial dispute to Rajanpal Singh for investigation. "The aggrieved family contacted me recently with a complaint that the DSP...