Head constable, associates booked for extortion racket targeting students

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As per the complaint, the accused would airs  arsenic  constabulary  officials and people     young assemblage   students, peculiarly  those staying alone. 

As per the complaint, the accused would airs arsenic constabulary officials and people young assemblage students, peculiarly those staying alone.  | Photo Credit: Getty Images

A shocking lawsuit of alleged constabulary misconduct has surfaced successful the city, wherever a caput constable and his associates person been booked for moving an extortion racket targeting assemblage students by threatening them with mendacious cause cases.

According to the police, an FIR has been registered against a caput constable attached to the Sanjaynagar Police Station, his subordinate Shiv Sagar, and different accused identified arsenic Puneeth. The lawsuit came to airy pursuing a ailment filed by Thomas G. Kolath, a nonmigratory of Varthur.

As per the complaint, the accused would airs arsenic constabulary officials and people young assemblage students, peculiarly those staying alone. Victims were allegedly picked up connected the pretext of being progressive successful cause depletion oregon peddling cases and brought adjacent the constabulary station.

The complainant stated that connected March 7, helium received a telephone from a idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium from Mahalakshmi Layout Police Station, asking him to travel to the presumption regarding a known idiosyncratic allegedly caught successful a cause case. When helium reached the location, helium recovered respective youths detained. The accused past allegedly demanded ₹4 lakh to merchandise the person. After negotiations, ₹3 lakh was paid, pursuing which the idiosyncratic was fto off.

The ailment further revealed that the accused continued to endanger him and others, repeatedly demanding wealth by claiming to beryllium constabulary personnel. Victims were allegedly assaulted, falsely implicated successful cause cases, and coerced into paying money.

Investigations besides bespeak that the accused, on with section rowdies, targeted aggregate assemblage students, utilizing intimidation tactics specified arsenic carnal assault, planting drugs, and forcing them into amerciable confinement.

Based connected the complaint, a lawsuit has been registered, and the caput constable has been taken into custody. Police officials said the accused persons person been produced earlier a court, and further probe is nether mode to place different victims and the imaginable engagement of further personnel.

Senior constabulary officers person assured strict enactment against those progressive and person stated that specified incidents volition beryllium dealt with firmly to support the public’s spot successful the constabulary system.

Published - April 07, 2026 08:16 p.m. IST

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