The investigating officer in the Bliss Consultants case, involving Goregaon couple Ashesh and Shivangi Mehta, has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Maharashtra police for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,00,000 to record a statement as a victim in the Mehta couple’s case.

Police Inspector Mahendra Vasudev Savardekar, 44, was arrested under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. According to the ACB, the arrest followed a complaint from a Tamil Nadu resident who had invested Rs 49.44 lakh in Bliss Consultants. A case has been registered against the consultancy under IPC Sections 420, 409, and 34, along with Sections 3 and 4 of the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (MPID) Act. Savardekar was the investigating officer in this case.