Sarthak Kanjilal
Port Blair, Jan 14: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today arrested Mr. Deepak Jha, the General Secretary of A & N State BJP unit for allegedly taking an amount of Rs. 7 lakh from a family to arrange admission to a child of the family in Medical College.
As per details, when the deal went wrong for some reasons, the family after paying the amount last year, registered a complaint in Anti- Corruption unit two months back.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha, Mr. Atmaram Deshpande, IPS, Superintendent of Police (CID) said that the case was later transferred to CID unit. After investigating the case Mr. Jha was arrested today by the CID team under section 420 read with 34 IPC.
Mr. Jha will be produced in court tomorrow in Holiday court.
“We are following the procedure as per law,” added Mr. Deshpande.
The official quote from BJP could not be obtained as the spokesperson of A & N BJP unit was unavailable over phone.
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