New Delhi: Six persons, including two Delhi Police constables, have been arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 3 lakh from a man and running a sex and extortion racket in Rani Bagh locality.
Constables Manoj Kumar, from Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, and Pawan Kumar, a resident of Mangolpuri and posted in Crime Branch, were arrested following a complaint by a man that he was asked to pay Rs 3 lakh by police personnel for not registering a case of rape against him, the police said on Sunday.
According to complainant, he was lured by a woman and her associate in Rani Bagh, a senior official said.
“He was detained for hours and beaten on the pretext that he had committed rape. The accused posed as Crime Branch officials and demanded Rs 6 lakh from the complainant but after negotiations, he paid Rs 3 lakh,” said Ravindra Yadav, additional commissioner of police (Crime Branch).
The police formed a team, based on his complaint and arrested four persons, including a woman. Based on technical surveillance and at the instance of the complainant, the accused Sunny, Neeraj, Simran (name changed), Vijay and the two constables were arrested for their involvement in this extortion racket, he added.
During interrogation, they said the accused, Sunny, and his wife, Sunita, were running a brothel in Rani Bagh where they came in contact with Neeraj.
Neeraj introduced them to Constable Manoj and Vijay.
Vijay is a former Home Guard and owns a grocery shop in Mangolpuri and indulged in property business. Thereafter, all of them formed a gang, hatched a conspiracy and planned to extort money from the clients who used to visit the brothel.
They also involved few women in this racket to lure their victims, the official said.
The accused used to take their victims to their place and once he was in a compromising position with one of the women gang members, their partners outside used to barge into the room and pretended to be Crime Branch officials. They then threatened the victim with arrest on charges of rape, the official said.
Once the victim was terrorised by the arrest threat, they demanded money from him for not initiating action, he said.
One of the accused, Sunita, is yet to be arrested in the case and is on the run.
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