Khan said the dismissed officials included three sub-inspectors and two assistant sub-inspectors of police. "The charges of corruption against them were found to be true during an inquiry by police officials," Khan said.

According to police headquarters here, all the officials dismissed from service were caught by the state vigilance investigation bureau while accepting bribes at various places in Gaya and Aurangabad districts in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Khan told IANS that corruption cannot be tolerated and such hard action against corrupt police officials will continue in future also. "We will not spare corrupt police officials," he said.

Last month, six police officials - five sub-inspectors and an assistant sub-inspector of police - were dismissed from service after charges of corruption against them were found to be true.

It is for the first time that such sweeping action has been taken by the administration against police officials caught accepting bribes. Chief minister Nitish Kumar has repeatedly vowed to eradicate corruption from the state and ordered to confiscate properties of corrupt officials and turn them into schools for poor children.

Additional Director-General of Police (Headquarters) Ravinder Kumar said the action against other police officials, who were arrested for corruption, will be taken.

Last November, Bihar Police chief Abhayanand asked the officials to take departmental action against officials arrested for graft.

Police officials said that over four dozen cases had been lodged against the officials.

Last year, the property of three government officials, including IAS officer S.S. Verma, was confiscated on the orders of the vigilance court.

Early this week, the state government dismissed six block development officers (BDOs) in Araria district on corruption charges, officials said. They were found to be involved in misappropriation of funds for the Indira Awas Yojna in the district.

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