A former Deputy Commissioner of Police charged with “kidnapping” and “extortion.”
A former Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) has been arrested in a phone tapping case and is now also charged with “kidnapping” and “extortion.” A businessman claimed he…
A former Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) has been arrested in a phone tapping case and is now also charged with “kidnapping” and “extortion.” A businessman claimed he was abducted and threatened to give up his company to his business partners in 2018. The former DCP allegedly forced the businessman to transfer shares worth Rs 100 crore to four directors of the healthcare services company. The former DCP was arrested on April 29, and a case was registered against him, two policemen, the four directors, and others.
The four part-time directors allegedly pressured the businessman to sell his 60% stake in the company to them for a lower value. They approached the former DCP with a proposal to kidnap and coerce the businessman into signing off the remaining shares to them and to make him resign from the company. The former DCP is also accused in the phone tapping case of being part of a conspiracy in developing profiles of private persons clandestinely and illegally and monitoring them without authorization in the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB).
Since March 13, a suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and two Additional Superintendents of Police have also been arrested. Hyderabad Police Commissioner K Sreenivasa Reddy has said that the investigation into the phone tapping case is going on the “right lines.” When asked if the police were considering issuing notices to political leaders, the Commissioner said, “We will do it purely objectively and at the right time we will tell you.”