The awareness message sent by the state Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) across the state over the mobile phones lead to trap Sarobjit Singh alias Sweety Singh in Rs One crore bribe case. Ramrao Patil the municipal contractor and the complainant in the bribe case had also received the same message on July 18 from the ACB and the same he called the number and registered his case with the ACB.
According to the ACB officials, after getting the demand of Rs three crore from Sweety to save him from getting booked under the Prevention of Atrocities Act as he had taken loans of crores of rupees on the names of Dalits workers and later defaulted EMIs of the loans. As Patil had cheated the Dalit workers brought this case before the National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NCSC) headed by Buta Singh.
When Patil was demanded Rs Three Crore from Sweety to save him from the Prevention of Atrocity Act by influencing the officers of the department.
The same day he received awareness message from the ACB on his mobile saying to register the cases of anti corruption with the ACB and he followed the same route to register his case. On July 18 the ACB received the complaint and on July 22 a case against all the accused was lodged with the CBI also the CBI created a plan and started following the calls made by the Hawala operators and Sweety to the complainant.
The ACB has tie ups with the mobile service providers across the state which sends this awareness message to thousands of subscribers in Hindi, Marathi and English languages which includes the numbers of the ACB control to register the complaints. According to the ACB officials they receive numerous calls from across the state over their 2492 1212 number and in a month in at least five to six raids accused are arrested red handed.
Pravin Salunkhe, the superintendent of ACB said, "We get several calls on our control room number daily and our three officers record their complaint and forward it to the senior staff. After studying the complaint details we plan a trap and arrest the accused. In the case of Sweety Singh contractor Patil called the same number and informed us about the case and accordingly we unearthed the racket."
Meanwhile, the CBI on Saturday conducted searches at the house of Buta Singh’s son Sweety Singh in Delhi and recovered three unlicensed weapons and some live cartridges. A case under the Arms Act has been registered against Sweety at Nizamuddin police station.
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