Raj IPS officer held in PCA case, to be presented in court

Jaipur, Feb 3 : Rajasthan’s Anti-Corruption Bureau officials have arrested IPS officer Manish Agrawal on charge of accepting a bribe of Rs 38 lakh from a highway construction company.
After spending a night in ACB custody following his arrest on Tuesday, the accused officer will be presented in court on Wednesday after undergoing coronavirus test.
Agrawal has been arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act, ACB Director BL Soni said.
Sources said that a team of two ACB officials had interrogated Agrawal. His mobile phones were earlier seized by the ACB.
Agrawal’s name cropped up in the case when petrol pump owner Neeraj Meena was arrested on charge of demanding money from the construction firm on the IPS officer’s behalf. The ACB was in the process of gathering evidence of corruption against him in the last 20 days after Meena’s arrest.
A 2010-batch IPS officer, Agrawal is posted as Commandant of State Disaster Response Force, Jaipur. Earlier, he served as the Dausa SP.