Srinagar, Sept. 23 -- The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday produced a chargesheet against a police officer who was caught red handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000 from the father of a detained youth.

Chargesheet was filed against ASI Ashiq Hussain Mir, the then in-charge Police Post Nagabal, Ganderbal, before the Court of Addl. Anti-corruption Judge Srinagar, in a case FIR No 24/2019 registered against him at the police station ACB Srinagar, a Bureau spokesperson said Thursday. The next date of hearing has been fixed on November 18.

The ACB, he said, had filed a case against Mir after receiving a complaint from a man alleging that the police officer was demanding a bribe of Rs.50, 000 from him to release his...