The contemporary era seeks everything to go digital. From sending funds, paying bills, to carrying plastic currency in form of credit and debit cards, we can be able to make our living without possessing paper-made currency notes. So why the exception for a bribe? Can bribe only be made through currency notes? Two police officers in Tamil Nadu say no and had shown that the bribe can also go digital. 

These two police officers had received a bribe from a person through Google Pay. As the sequel of that, they had invited trouble as they were transferred from their posts. According to reports, Erode district Superintendent of Police (SP) Sasimohan has transferred a special sub-inspector (SSI) and a head constable to the armed reserve force for taking the bribe. 

SSI Vadivel (50) and Head Constable Chandramohan (46) were on duty at the Asanur check post on the Tamil Nadu- Karnataka border on July 2. During their duty at the border, the duo had barricaded a car that was coming from Karnataka and they found that the car was carrying liquor bottles that were being smuggled from Karnataka. 

After identifying the booze as smuggled goods, the police officers should have seized the car and liquors and should have blocked the vehicle from entering Tamil Nadu. However, Vadivel and Chandramohan had released the car without seizing the liquors. The SP said that they had released the car into Tamil Nadu and the duo had accepted bribes from the person in the car and the bribe was transferred to the police officers through Google Pay. 

The reports say that the matter of receiving the bribe went to the knowledge of the SP after which he had ordered a departmental probe. A police officer said that during an inquiry, it was confirmed that the two police officers had received bribes through Google pay. The two police officers had confessed to their crime that they had received the bribe. The SP has said that strict action would be taken against the two police officers. They were transferred to the armed reserve force.