A Delhi Police team has arrested a man who impersonated as a policeman to extort money from shopkeepers and those consuming alcohol in open areas of Northeast Delhi. A Delhi Police uniform and other articles, issued usually to a police man, were also recovered from the accused.
The accused has been identified as 26-year-old Ashish Chaudhary, a resident of Mandoli Extension area. According to senior police officers, it was on Tuesday, when a police team deployed in civil cloths near a wine shop in Jyoti Nagar noticed a man wearing Delhi Police constable’s uniform with a name plate reading - Ashish Chaudhary. Another person accompanying the man in uniform was seen interrogating and threatening a youth namely Bittu Sharma.
Dr Ajit Singla, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Northeast said, on suspicion, Sub Inspector Amrender asked Chaudhary about his place of posting and about his presence in the area of Jyoti Nagar area. “On this, Chaudhary replied that he is in control room of east district. Then Amrender asked about his PIS number which Chaudhary could not tell. Therefore on the suspicion, he was apprehended for questioning. It was during interrogation, that it came to notice that Chaudhary was extorting money from Bittoo as he had threatened him that he will arrest him in a case of theft if money was not paid,” added Singla.