Overview
- The ASI, who was on duty Tuesday at Akola’s Civil Lines station, allegedly propositioned a 45-year-old detainee held in an ₹80-lakh fraud case.
- Police say he told her she was beautiful and urged her to send her daughter to him, offering ₹10,000 and hinting at release from custody.
- The woman reported the approach to a female officer, after which senior officials confronted the ASI in a clip that spread on local social media.
- Superintendent Archit Chandak suspended the officer and ordered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which includes the offence of outraging a woman’s modesty.
- Investigators formed multiple teams to find him, and an IANS report said the local crime branch arrested the ASI later that night.