Panvel PSI Caught Red-Handed While Taking ₹50,000 Bribe; Raigad ACB Arrests Officer And Accomplice

A Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) attached to Panvel City Police Station was caught red-handed by the Raigad Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Monday, July 21, while accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000. The officer, Sachin Vamanrao Waykar (42), was arrested along with a private individual, Ravindra alias Sachin Subhash Butte (30), who accepted the bribe on his behalf.

The action followed a complaint filed by a citizen whose father was booked under IPC sections 465, 420, and 34. After securing interim bail in the case, PSI Waykar allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from the complainant, threatening to add more charges and re-arrest his father if the demand was not met.

"Refusing to pay the bribe, the complainant approached the us. A verification process revealed that Waykar had agreed to settle the matter for Rs 50,000. Acting on this, we set up a trap on Monday," an officer from Raigad ACB said.

According to officials, Butte accepted the bribe from the complainant on instructions from Waykar. Both were immediately apprehended by the ACB team after the transaction.

The operation was conducted under the leadership of DySP Sarita Bhosale, with PSI Nishant Dhanawade, Narayan Sarode, ASI Vinod Jadhav, Constable Mahesh Patil, and Police Sepoy Navdeep Nandgavkar forming part of the trap team.