Traffic violation case: Three cops suspended for manhandling 2 doctors, extorting Rs 25000
Mumbai: Holding three police personnel responsible for allegedly assaulting two doctors and extorting money as a penalty, the Mumbai police department has suspended them based on the complaint of a doctor.
The official said the alleged incident took place on April 25 when two doctors were brought to the Samta Nagar police station in suburban Kandivali for violating traffic norms.
The three police personnel were suspended based on the complaint of the doctor who claimed that they were treated as criminals at the police station and moreover were brutally assaulted by them.
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The doctors were taken to the interrogation room where they were allegedly hit with a belt and made to stand at the police station for three hours. One sub-inspector and a police naik extorted Rs 25,000 from them, he said.
The doctors then approached senior police officials and narrated their ordeal at the police station. A preliminary inquiry found that there was truth in the doctors’ version, he said.
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