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Bengaluru: Two Police Personnel Suspended After Extorting Couple Near Manyata Tech Park

Hoysala patrolling police on Thursday threatened a couple of dire consequences and extorted Rs 1,000 near Manyata Tech Park in Bengaluru for walking late at night

Days after Hoysala patrolling police threatened a couple of dire consequences and extorted Rs 1,000 near Manyata Tech Park in Bengaluru for walking late at night, Bengaluru police on Sunday informed that the two cops involved in the incident were identified and suspended.

In a tweet, Bengaluru City Police said, "Two police personnel from Sampigehalli police station responsible for the incident have been identified, suspended and departmental action initiated.

"Bengaluru City Police will not tolerate deviant behaviour from its staff."

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Taking his ordeal to Twitter, Karthik Patri wrote, " It was around 12:30 midnight. My wife and I were walking back home after attending a friend’s cake-cutting ceremony. Two men in police uniforms asked us to show our ID cards."

The police asked the couple their ID cards and after they showed them the proof on their phones, the police confiscated their phones. "they took our phones away and started quizzing us about our relationship, place of work, parental details, etc," he added.

They took a challan book and started to write the victims' details and when asked the reason behind issuing them a challan, the police told: "You are not allowed to roam on the road after 11 pm," adding to it he wrote: "They refused to let us go and demanded Rs 3,000 as penalty."

"They said only I would be penalized. The man in the driving seat took me aside and advised that I pay a minimum amount to avoid further trouble. By now I was mentally drained and exhausted, my wife was terribly distressed, and I didn’t want the ordeal to prolong even more," the victim wrote on his twitter.

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