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The Ijoor constabulary of Bengaluru South territory connected Saturday arrested a 55-year-old constabulary constable attached to Lokayukta for allegedly threatening and extorting wealth from authorities officials by posing arsenic a Lokayukta sleuth.
Based connected a ailment filed by the Child Development Planning Officer from Magadi, a squad of constabulary tracked down the accused, identified arsenic Murugeppa, charging him with extortion and impersonation.
According to the police, Murugeppa was a constabulary constable with the Lokayukta, and helium was dismissed from work for his corrupt practices.
Exploiting his expertise, Murugeppa allegedly started an extortion racket and obtained a database of officials and called them by posing arsenic the Deputy Superintendent of Police. He would telephone the officials, endanger to behaviour raids connected them, and aboriginal extort money.
A probe revealed that helium had arsenic galore arsenic 46 extortion cases pending against him crossed the State. The constabulary person seized 3 mobile phones and 9 SIMs which helium had allegedly obtained from antithetic companies with fake documents to usage it to perpetrate the offence.
