Coimbatore: The Sulur police arrested two cops on Thursday afternoon for extorting 10,000 from a youth, who was talking with a feminine buddy in a automobile close to Lodge Le Meridien on Avinashi Highway right here on Monday night time.
The arrested had been recognized as Rajarajan, 38, a head constable with the Karumathampatti police and Jagadeesh, a constable with the agricultural armed reserve police.
Based on a police supply, the cops weren't on responsibility after they noticed the youth and the woman within the automobile close to the resort on Avinashi Highway. “They had been in plain garments. The 2 launched themselves as cops and verbally abused them for chatting within the automobile in an remoted place at night time. They demanded 10,000 from the youth, who gave away the money, and threatened him to not reveal the incident to anybody.”
The youth approached the district administration officers, who introduced the problem to the information of senior law enforcement officials. After a radical inquiry, police acquired a grievance from the youth. A group of police, in the meantime, collected CCTV footage from the resort and confirmed the id of the 2 policemen.
The Sulur police registered a case towards the cops below Sections 166 (public servant disobeying regulation, with intent to trigger harm to any particular person), 294 (b) (uttering obscene phrases) and 387 (placing particular person in worry of dying or grievous harm in an effort to commit extortion) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested them on Thursday. They had been produced earlier than a judicial Justice of the Peace at night time and lodged within the Coimbatore Central Jail below judicial custody.