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Close to the heels of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) constabulary unearthing an extortion racket involving a constable attached to the Internal Security Division earlier this month, 2 constabulary unit —an Assistant Sub Inspector and a Hoysala driver— person confessed to extorting ₹75,000 from a migrant idiosyncratic and his household successful Varthur successful July.
On Friday, they returned the wealth pursuing an enquiry by the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Whitefield Division successful Bengaluru.
The duo, identified arsenic Ganesh and Prabhu, on with their associate, barged into the location of Lalchand Sheikh, a autochthonal of West Bengal and moving arsenic a schoolhouse van driver, accused him of being a Bangladeshi national, and detained him connected the charges of amerciable migration and creating fake documents successful the archetypal week of July.
According to a elder constabulary official, the accused demanded ₹75,000 for Lalchand’s merchandise from his parents, who tried to crushed with him. Sajira, Lalchand’s mother, who worked arsenic a home help, arranged the wealth and transferred online to 1 of the accused to get her lad released.
KSHRC’s relation
The victim, with the assistance of a societal activist, approached the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission and brought it to the announcement of the Whitefield DCP.
The DCP ordered a probe and summoned the accused, who confessed and returned the money. The substance was referred to the jurisdictional Assistant Commissioner of Police for a elaborate probe, a elder constabulary serviceman said.
Transfer sought
R. Kaleemullah, city-based activist, who is 1 of the complainants successful the case, had requested the DCP to instrumentality indispensable measures to guarantee the migrant labours are not harassed by the accused officials. “I person requested the officials to transportation the accused constabulary unit to antithetic presumption to debar further harassment, arsenic bulk of the migrant labouers surviving successful and astir Whitefield country are surviving successful the shadiness of fear.“
Meanwhile, the KSHRC is awaiting effect from the DCP. According to sources, the 2 constabulary unit who person confessed to taking the bribe and returned the money, tin beryllium booked nether the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The KSHRC officials volition summon the complainant and grounds his connection successful this regard, sources said.
