Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana (South), Baldev Singh Chauhan had threatened Rakesh Kumar that he would be implicated in false cases and put behind bars if he did not pay him a sum of Rs 25,000 per month, SSP, Vigilance Bureau, Satinder Singh, told reporters.
According to the SSP, this was the first instalment of the 'deal'.
The scrap dealer had approached the Vigilance Bureau against the ACP after which a trap was laid and Chauhan was arrested, Singh said.