Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) Vinay Kumar, on Friday (January 9, 2026) issued strict instructions to the force warning them against illegal practices. Giving a stern warning to the police personnel indulged in unscrupulous practices, the State’s police chief unequivocally asserted that “police personnel in uniform behaving like criminals will not be tolerated at all.”
“We have 13,000 Sub-Inspectors and there are one or two persons who receive illegal gratification, may be in gold, money etc. We will not tolerate such incidents. We will send such personnel to jail after lodging FIRs, besides ensuring their dismissal from service,” Mr. Kumar said.
Last week, a sub-inspector Pramod Kumar, posted at Akbarpur police station in Nawada district, was arrested red-handed while accepting the bribe of ₹25,000 from a complainant seeking to prevent the arrest.
In the last three years, at least 50 Station House Officers (SHOs) have been either suspended or sent to police lines for allegedly taking money from sand and liquor mafia in Bihar.
Bihar DGP, however, asserted that the State has witnessed a decline in the number of major criminal cases of murder, rape, dacoity, riots in the year 2025 in comparison to 2024 due to better and effective policing
