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Mumbai: Two Santacruz cops facing enquiry for meddling in extortion case
Updated On: 16 July, 2024 06:19 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
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Complainant Mahesh Gami at Kalanagar, Bandra East on July 7. Pic/Satej Shinde
Senior inspector Rajendra Kane and crime PI Amar Patil of Santacruz police station are facing a departmental enquiry (DE) for allegedly forcing an investigating officer to dilute an extortion case registered against politically backed Gujarat-based gangsters.
It has been alleged that the intervention of Kane and Patil in the extortion case prompted the investigating officer, PSI Sharad Landge, to write a complaint against them to Raj Tilak Roushan, zonal deputy commissioner of police, who transferred the case from Santacruz to Bandra police station, where the kingpin was immediately arrested. The kingpin’s two henchmen were already arrested by Santacruz police and four mobile phones were confiscated from them. “But at the time of transferring the case to Bandra police station, Patil, who was handed over the case from first investigating officer PSI Landge, did not give the four mobile phones to Bandra police station,” said a senior officer requesting anonymity. The DE is conducted by the divisional ACP of Santacruz, and both the police officers—Kane and Patil—are yet to be called for questioning. When contacted, they claimed no DE is underway against them.
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