NEW DELHI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Indian capital Delhi's Traffic Police
suspended 98 policemen filmed on video accepting bribes from private bus
operators Friday, local newspaper the Hindustan Times reported Sunday.
The policemen were suspended after a vigilance department identified the
policemen in the videotapes, in line with an order from the Delhi High Court.
The policemen were filmed taking money in a sting operation carried out by
Chetan Prakash, a property dealer, after a bus owner approached him for help.
The shots were taken at 23 traffic intersections between September and
December last year in Delhi.
"The cops used to demand money from the bus owners for releasing their
impounded buses and also a daily entry fee. Every bus in the capital has to pass
through one of these entry points everyday," said Prakash.
This is not the first time Prakash conducted a sting operation and
submitted it in the Delhi High Court. In the last three years 59 policemen have
been suspended after Prakash filmed them taking bribe from bootleggers, the
report said.