Following Chief Minister Siddaramaiah admonishing the City police for not registering criminal cases and arresting policemen allegedly involved in extortion, the City police have filed criminal cases against a police inspector and three constables who were beforehand attached to HAL Police Station.
Hours after Siddaramaiah made scathing remarks and took City Police Commissioner Raghavendra H Auradkar to errand at the annual senior police officials meet, criminal cases were booked against four policemen, and they were placed under suspension since Tuesday evening.
Inspector Rajesh, at that time with HAL Police Station and constables Venkatesh, Dinesh and Bheem Singh were suspended on charges of accepting bribe from Javed, who was arrested in theft cases two years ago. He is now supposed to be leading a clean life. But the policemen allegedly harassed him and demanded Rs 3 lakh as bribe.
The inspector was accused of wrongfully taken in for questioning Javed, threatening to laid the blame on him by filing fresh cases and fleecing Rs 3 lakh.
Following a complaint Javed lodged with divisional deputy commissioner of police, he conducted an inquiry in which the policemen reportedly make a clean breast to their act.
All four were immediately suspended by the commissioner.
“You book criminal cases against the person involved in such cases and arrest the person. Then why have you not done this to the officers involved,” said, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at Tuesday’s meet with senior police officials from State. He said further that only suspending officers is not justification for their offences.
A case was registered by the HAL police against four police officials for wrongful restraint, confinement and robbery. However, none of them has been arrested so far.