Passengers of Trivandrum bound Rapti Sagar Express created ruckus after two GRP police personnel extorted money in the name of not having Indian ID for Nepali passengers, on Sunday night; a case was registered by Bhopal GRP.
According to the police, the matter came to fore after one of the passengers updated the act over the complaint service of GRP and acting swiftly senior officials alerted the GRP Bhopal and team was dispatched to investigate.
Investigating Officer RK Sharma said that the accused police personnel targeted
citizens of Nepal and after they provided ID of Nepal they demanded penalty claiming that they are not having Indian ID. Around 8 victims lodged complaint and a total of `1700 was extorted from them. After the complaint was lodged the case was transferred to Jhansi GRP for further investigation.
The victim passengers have stated that the two were wearing uniform which was having batch of On Duty GRP UP and were having pistols which is not provided to police personnel of GRP in the State.
After the train reached Bhopal railway station at around 10.30 pm passengers lodged a complaint against the errant police personnel with the team which was assigned to check the matter reported by the passengers.
Train coach number 8 and 9 were targeted by the two accused policemen and the illegal collection was done from Jhansi and lalitpur. The two went missing after they sensed that they might be arrested they escaped and are still missing. The police have registered a case under section 327 of the IPC and have started further investigation.