Supreme Court "surprised" at Bihar police's claim that bribe money was eaten by rats
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The Supreme Court recently granted bail to a corruption-accused former government official in Bihar after expressing surprise over a claim that currency notes seized in the case were destroyed by rats in the police malkhana (evidence room) [Aruna Kumari v. The Economic Offences Unit]. A Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan suspended the four-year sentence of the accused official, a former Child Development Programme Officer (CDPO) named Aruna Kumari, and ordered