Delhi Police using sting operations to check corruption
New Delhi, July 7 (PTI) Sting operation — a method used by investigative journalists to expose irregularities has become a tool for Delhi Police to check corrupt officials in its own department, making it the first in the country to adopt such a measure.
Delhi Police’s Vigilance Branch claims to have ‘snooped around’ and exposed four major corruption cases involving several policemen by using various equipment to capture evidence so far this year.
“We have off late started using this method. The success rate has been satisfactory. It helps us in gathering evidence in advance before a case is registered and saves time for the legal process,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Vigilance) N Dilip Kumar, who initiated the state-of-the-art method, told PTI.
