Two policemen caught in bribery case

MUMBAI: A high drama followed inside the sea facing police quarters at Carter road in Bandra when the team of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) laid a trap after a estate agent complaint that two police officers of Khar police station along with three private persons were blackmailing and were demanding Rs 50 lakhs extortion.
Interestingly the 15 minutes drama ended after the assistant police inspector Subhash Samant of Khar police station managed to jump from the Air condition duct of his first floor flat along with the bribe amount of Rs 10 lakhs and some property documents.Interestingly the ACB sleuths had covered bag of cash with the fake currency notes below and the geniune notes of Rs 20,000. Another bag contained the original property document of a prime plot in Carter road in Bandra.
The ACB which has registered a prevention of corruption act have formed two teams while one team has laucnhed a manhunt for API Samant and police inspector Mahendra Narlekar, the other team is looking for three private persons identified as Vicky Arora, Mahesh Kamble and Robin Gonsalves, a notorious goon from Khar Danda.
The complainant in the case is a young estate agent from Khar who alleged in a complaint that Samant and Narlekar were summoning and were harassing him."Initially when complainant met Samant at Khar police station recently, he was told that a 20 year old woman has filed a complaint against him of gang rape and started summoning him," said Praveen Dixit, director general of police (ACB).
Samant told complainant that the victim woman has given a application to inspector Narlekar stating that recently complainant spiked her drink and than she woked up to find herself naked and her private parts were paining. She said that she was gang raped by three to four persons including complainant. "This application was marked sent to chief Minister, home minister and Mumbai police commissioner but in actual the application had not even reached the senior inspector of Khar police station. During the investigations now has now transpired that the accused had fabricated this application to scare the complainant," said Vishwas Nangre Patil, additional commissioner of police (ACB).
Complainant met Narlekar and Samant at Khar police station. Duo told that if he want to evade the registeration of the gang rape, he should talk to Vicky Arora, a common friend. Arora told complainant that he can set the ball rolling if he cough up Rs 50 lakhs and he transfers a prime piece of plot at Carter road in his name. During the investigations it was transpired that complainant had brought the same plot from Arora for Rs 25 lakhs in 2008. But as the prices went soar, Arora started demanding his property back which complainant refused till 2012. "Now it appears that Arora along with his two friends Robin Gonsolves, Mahesh Kamble in connivance with two police officers fabricated a fake application of a woman of gang rape and started threatening believing that complainant would give up," added Nangre.
Complainant finally approached the ACB and lodged a complaint. The ACB which has been working on this complaint for nearly a fortnight have recorded enough material evidence and tapped conversation where the policemen and accused demanding money. On Monday evening complainant told Samant that he had arrange the first installment of Rs 10 lakh and the property document and reached Samant’s flat on the first floor at Carter road. It was around 6.15 pm when Samant allowed complainant with two bags inside his flat and immediatley bolted the door from inside.
Complainant gave a signal to the waiting ACB team which initially send a woman police officer who identified herself from SB. No sooner did Samant opened the door, the team of six ACB sleuths barged in but Samant who himself is six feet tall body builder pushed the officers and again bolted the door. Now having sense trouble, he abused the complainant and ran towards the ac duct along with two bags and before ACB sleuths broke open his door, he jumped and fled away. Police have recorded Samant’s relative statement to the incident.