Moon Moon Desk: In what proves how top Indian police officials are running an extortion racket inside jails, India’s premier investigative agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought sanction from the Ministry of Home Affairs to file an FIR against former DG of prisons, Delhi, Sandeep Goel and former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Mukesh Prasad for extorting millions of rupees from various high profile prisoners.
The CBI has sent a request seeking mandatory sanction against 1989 batch IPS officer Goel, who was suspended by the ministry last year, and retired IAS officer Prasad, who was posted as the additional inspector general in Tihar, officials said.
The India’s central probe agency needs a go-ahead from the home ministry, the cadre controlling authority, under Section 17 A of the Prevention of Corruption Act before proceeding with an investigation against them.
The CBI has alleged that Goel and Prasad in connivance with former jail minister Satyendar Jain extorted and received Rs 12.50 crore from inmate Chandrashekhar who was lodged as an undertrial for the last few years.
The money was extorted and received in various tranches during 2019-22 either by themselves or through their accomplices, as “protection money”, so as to enable Chandrashekar to live peacefully and comfortably in jail, the CBI said.
