Mumbai: DCP named accused in angadia extortion case

While the complaint letter by the angadias had mentioned that DCP Saurabh Tripathi, too, had sought money from them, the police had initially registered an FIR only against three policemen from the LT Marg police station.

A senior officer said, “After questioning Vangate, we found DCP Tripathi had given verbal orders to collect money from angadias. Therefore, we have named him as the wanted accused in our remand application.”

The complainants alleged that the accused police personnel had in December threatened them of an Income Tax raid if they failed to give them money. An inquiry conducted by Additional Commissioner (south region) Dilip Sawant also found CCTV footage of angadias entering a police chowki along with the accused.

The police, though, are yet to recover the amount allegedly extorted by the accused policemen from the angadias.