Ghaziabad: A sub-inspector (SI) posted at a Mahila police station was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs 45,000 to remove the name of an accused from a dowry harassment case.SI Bhuvneshwari Singh was arrested by the Meerut anti-corruption team after a complaint was filed by the man named in the dowry harassment case she was investigating. Singh, a resident of Aligarh, is posted at the Mahila police station in Sahibabad since Sept 2025.The arrest comes just 112 days after Singh was part of an all-woman police team that arrested a robber following a brief gunfight in the Lohiya Nagar area. The Sept 23, 2025, operation, carried out near the Mahila police station, was led by station house officer Ritu Tyagi and included inspector Vineeta Yadav, SI Singh, along with two women head constables. The encounter had been widely highlighted as an example of women officers taking the lead in field operations.The dowry case stemmed from a complaint filed on Dec 16, 2025, by a 28-year-old woman against her husband, Gaurav Saini, a Sahibabad resident. In her complaint, the woman alleged harassment over dowry, claiming her husband pressured her parents to transfer ownership of their house to him and sent her back to her parental home. An FIR was registered under the provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act, and Singh was assigned to investigate the case. During the probe, she allegedly demanded Rs 45,000 from Saini in exchange for removing his name from the FIR and issuing a clean chit. Instead of paying the bribe, Saini approached the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Meerut, which laid a trap and arrested Singh while she was allegedly accepting the money.Sahibabad ACP Shweta Yadav said an FIR was being registered against the sub-inspector, and departmental action would follow.This is not the first time that Singh has faced criminal charges. In June 2022, she was arrested by the crime branch along with two associates, including a home guard, in connection with a honey-trap-style extortion case. At the time, she was posted in the office of the additional DCP.
