Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Ara : Bhojpur SP Har Kishore Rai on September 20, 2020, suspended four police personnel with immediate effect and also got arrested two middlemen for allegedly realising money from truck drivers and truck owners on Abdul Bari Bridge over river Sone at Koelwar under the same police station. A named FIR has been lodged with the police under Koelwar police station against the middlemen and sent them to jail.
Bhojpur SP Har Kishore Rai said that a video regarding collection of illegal money from truck drivers and truck owners by police personnel deputed at Abdul Bari Bridge to maintain law and order and also to regulate movement of vehicles smoothly had gone viral on the social media. He got it verified. After verification, he suspended all the four police personnel with immediate effect and got arrested two middlemen. The viral video clearly showed that two middlemen were realising money from truck drivers while the police personnel on duty were talking on mobile nearby.
Action against police personnel for realizing illegal money from truck driver at the bridge was taken earlier too after which the police personnel started using some locals for the purpose giving them a share of 20% in the money thus collected.