Bulandshaher, Aug 02: Seven Police personnel, including the Station House Officer of a police station in Bulandshahr, have been booked for allegedly detaining a businessman, extorting money from him, and threatening to falsely implicate him in a criminal case and shoot him in the leg in a staged police encounter if he failed to comply.
An FIR was registered only on Friday at the Sikandrabad police station in Bulandshahr.
Police said all the police personnel named in the case are under suspension.
According to police, one, Salman, who runs a dairy business, alleged that he was intercepted by police personnel at a toll plaza on April 30 and forcibly taken to the Sikandrabad police station.
Police said Salman alleged that when he repeatedly asked why he had been detained, the accused Policemen demanded Rs 20 lakh. He alleged that he was beaten, abused and subjected to intense physical and psychological torture while in custody.
Under the alleged coercion, he claimed to have arranged and given Rs 6 lakh to the accused, which his family brought to the police station, after which he was released.
The complainant also stated that before letting him go, the Policemen allegedly threatened to kill him and falsely implicate both him and his family in fabricated criminal cases if he spoke about the episode.
The charges in the case related to voluntarily causing hurt, extortion, wrongful confinement, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace, and criminal intimidation.
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