A Police Sargent has been taken into custody by the Investigation officers of CIABOC on 02.08.2017 for soliciting and obtaining a bribe Rs.10,000/- to release a tree cutting machine taken into custardy for the offence of felling down an Ahetu Tree without a permit and to abstain from taking legal action in that regard and furthermore, to allow to fell down a satinwood tree and tearing-up the same in due course.