Jammu, July 5 -- A police sub-inspector (SI) fled RS Pura police station to escape CBI officers, who had conducted a raid to arrest him for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 from a complainant in a murder case of a young housewife, said officials.

The absconding SI has been identified as Bashir Ahmed Malik.

"Recently a housewife, Pooja Devi, wife of Kulbir Singh of Sidher village, died at the house of her in-laws. Parents of the deceased woman suspected some foul play. The 13-year-old daughter of the deceased also recorded her statement under section 164 Cr PC before a magistrate," said official sources.

After FSL report, police converted the inquest proceedings into a murder case and started investigations, they added.

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