India, Sept. 25 -- Inspector Rohit Sawant, the investigation officer of the Government Railway Police (GRP) extortion cases, has gone absconding after it was found that his aide had accepted a Rs.5-lakh bribe, on his behalf, from one of the accused in the case.

According to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), one of the accused in the GRP extortion case approached the them claiming that Sawant, attached to the GRP crime branch, had demanded Rs.10 lakh and threatened to frame him if the amount was not paid. On Tuesday, the ACB laid a trap to red-handedly catch him accepting a bribe. "Sawant's lawyer, Arunkumar Singh, had come to collect the money. After the complainant gave him Rs.5 lakh, Singh called Sawant to inform him that he had collec...