Six Uttar Pradesh Police constables, including two women, were suspended on Tuesday for stopping over at the house of a friend of the main accused in Rs 3,700 crore online scam while escorting him from Faridabad to Lucknow, an official said.
The escort team included constables Rajan Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Arun Kumar, Arun, Susheela and Preeti, he said.
On the way to Lucknow, the team stopped at the house of a friend of the accused, Anubhav Mittal (29), in Noida. Later, the group also had lunch at a restaurant located in the housing complex, a Noida police spokesperson said.
"Mittal was brought to Faridabad in Haryana in connection with a case. On their way back to Lucknow, he and the police personnel stopped at a flat at Cleo County Society in Sector 121 of Noida for lunch," a Noida police spokesperson said.
"At the society, some locals raised concerns over Mittal being brought there, after which the local police were alerted and the accused and the police team from Lucknow were sent back," he said. "The Gautam Buddh Nagar police has no role in the episode," he added.