The Mumbai unit of the CBI’s Anti-Corruption Bureau is said to have received two new complaints that Sarabjot Singh, son of National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman Buta Singh, asked for bribes to “fix cases under the Atrocities Act.”
Sarabjot was arrested following a similar complaint by a Nashik conservancy contractor Ramrao Patil last month and is now on bail.
But unlike in the Nashik case, where the contractor is accused of cheating conservancy workers who are SCs, the two new cases involve people from the SC community who approached the commission with complaints against non-SCs, sources said.
In the first case, an SC woman professor from Hyderabad allegedly complained to the commission that she was harassed by a top university official. The woman and her lawyer approached the CBI in Mumbai today saying that Sarabjot had allegedly promised to get “their work done for a price,” sources said.
The second case is said to involve an SC government employee from Hoshiarpur who went to the commission alleging “atrocities” at work. He was said to have been contacted by Sarabjot to fix the case for a price.