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A Lady SI Shweta Rani asks for bribe from ex-HC judge's wife

A probationer lady sub-inspector landed in trouble when she dared to demand Rs 2,000 from the wife of a former Patna High Court judge for verification of her passport application. Still this is hard to believe as serious effort from Mr. Nitish Kumar war on corruption. Still believe it or not , this happen first time in India that Probationer sub-inspector Shweta Rani of the city's Kotwali police station allegedly asked for graft from the wife of a retired Patna high court judge for verification of her passport application.As has been the practice in cases of such police verification, Rani recently visited the judge's residence and cross-checked the documents and details of the judge's wife in front of her. Once the exercise was over, she pretended to leave and allegedly asked the judge's wife to pay her for "snacks and sweets". Not the one to unnecessarily flaunt her status, the judge's wife obliged the police recruit with Rs 200 out of sheer affection. But the uniformed woman would not accept it. She allegedly insisted for Rs 2,000, saying, "that's the rate for this job". The judge's wife couldn't take it. Police sources said she called up DGP Neelmani and the top cop immediately responded, directing officials down the line to look into the matter. Patna SSP Alok Kumar suspended Rani and ordered an inquiry into the matter by an ASP. That's not the end of the story. Soon after the SSP acted against the woman cop, an MLA sympathizer of hers swung into action to save her from further punishment.According to ADG (HQ) Rajyavardhan Sharma the probationer SI has since been suspended. He said since the SI has committed such a serious offence even while being on probation, she is liable to be dismissed from the service. Shweta Rani exploded two myths at a time: that woman employees are honest and that the newly recruited officers are generally free from the lust of money and that they grow corrupt only after being in the job for a few years. But Shweta chose to be corrupt from the day one. Police sources referred to the quote, "Morning shows the day", and said since the SI has committed such a serious offence even while being on probation, she is liable to be dismissed from the service. It, however, remains to be seen if Rani's bosses heed her political patron's pleas or join the Kumar-led government's war on graft. But still hard to believe such incidence happen in capital itself , Mr. Nitish Kumar didn't reacted on this.Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may have waged a much-hyped ''war against corruption'' but his ''war'' has not deterred the corrupt officials one bit. Police force have to learn a lesson from some of them like Kiran Bedi.