Bhopal: Three police personnel of the Cyber Crime division got booked on a bribery and extortion charge when they went to arrest an accused in Ponzi case in Noida. The Sector 20, Noida, police registered a case at their police station on Saturday evening against the 3 cops posted in Jabalpur.
Sources stated that, about 3 days ago, the 3 police constables — Pankaj Sahu, Rashid Khan and Ashid Khan — had gone to Noida to arrest an accused wanted by the Jabalpur cyber police. But, when they reached Noida, alternatively of pursuing their assigned job, they contacted the accused in the case. They told him that they had come to arrest him, but had decided to grant him a reprieve if he paid a particular quantity for his ‘no-arrest’. Interestingly, the accused paid lakhs of rupees to the 3 and also paid an quantity in Bitcoin.
On Friday, the 3 cops and the accused reached the bank and checked the quantity. When the policemen located the massive quantity in the account, they mounted stress on the accused.
The accused refused to be brow-beaten and named his aides and thrashed the 3. The assailants took away the service revolver of one particular of the policemen. The 3 lodged a police complaint saying that their service gun had been snatched. When the police investigated the case, they got to know the truth about what had basically occurred.
The accused told the police that he had paid a massive quantity of about Rs 50 lakh in money and more in the type of Bitcoin. The Noida police have registered a case against the 3 police constables. Information about the case registration is however to attain Jabalpur for additional action.