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Jalandhar: In Jalandhar, Punjab, the rural police has arrested three accused who were extorting money by posing as fake police officers. Police of Shahkot police station have arrested the accused from Shahkot area.
They have been identified as Raja, resident of Kapurthala, Davinder Singh resident Dhuddiwal, Kapurthala and Harjinder Singh resident Tibba police station Talwandi Chaudhary Kapurthala.
A Suspended police employee was running the gang
The police has registered a case against all of them and started further action. The main accused among the three is Raja, who was a suspended employee of Punjab Police and was last posted in Kapurthala district. But the department had already dismissed Raja in a corruption case. The accused used to extort money from innocent people by introducing themselves as employees of CIA staff Kapurthala. Three similar cases have already been registered against the three.
All three accused had came in car with Chandigarh number plate
SHO of Shahkot police station Aman Saini said that Navneet Arora alias Nitin, a resident of Truck Union Saidpur Jhiri, Shahkot, had lodged a complaint against the accused. Nitin had said that on Wednesday evening I had gone out for some work. During this, the three accused who came out in car number CH-01-AY-5234 stopped me and started saying that you are involved in wrong things, I know everything. We have come from CIA Kapurthala. We have come to raid your house.
Money and car recovered from the accused
The three made the victim sit in a car and asked for 50 thousand rupees to release him. To save his life, Nitin took out four thousand rupees from his pocket and gave them to the accused. When the accused were not happy with this, the victim brought 8 thousand rupees more from home and handed it over to the accused.
After taking the money, the accused threatened that if he tells anyone about this, an FIR will be registered against him. When the matter reached the police, after investigation the police arrested the accused and recovered Rs 12 thousand and the car.
