cop gets 36-month R-I in graft case

A police inspector with N M Joshi Marg police, who was arrested for graft in 2006, was Thursday convicted and sentenced to 36 months of rigorous imprisonment, while a sub-inspector, who was also arrested in the same case, was acquitted. ACB officers said inspector Prashant Pandit and sub-inspector Jagdish Giri were arrested by 2006 after they allegedly demanded Rs 50,000 from an arrested suspect in lieu of his release. Pandit was the investigating officer in the case, police said.