India, Nov. 22 -- A team of the Ghaziabad police conducted a raid at Lohiya Nagar crime branch office late Thursday night and arrested an inspector for allegedly taking a bribe of around Rs.4 lakh from a known person related to suspects who were earlier arrested for a syrup scam, officials said Friday.

The inspector was identified as Ramesh Siddhu, police said, and recovered the alleged cash from his possession.

"We received confidential information on November 20 that the inspector had sought cash to provide undue favours to the previously arrested suspects in connection with the syrup scam case registered against them at Nandgram police station," said Dhawal Jaiswal, City Zone DCP, adding that the inspector was arrested.

The police s...