Mumbai: The court here on Tuesday returned two Mumbai police officers, arrested in connection with extortion cases registered at the Marine drive police station here, to 14 days of justice.
The court refused the police requesting an extension of detention duo in a case where the former Police Commissioner Mumbai Param Bir Singh was also the defendant.
The two officers arrested, Inspector Nandkumar Gopale and Asha Korke, were previously posted at the Crime Crime Branch.
The duo was arrested last week based on a complaint of extortion submitted by the developer of the Agrawal Shyamsunder real estate at the Drive Marine Police Station in July.
On Tuesday, the defendant was produced before the additional Metropolitan Magistrate R M Nerlikar at the end of the previous police detention.
Police pray for custody accused of the land they have led to the Duo who received Rs 50 Lakh in extortion money.
The probe agent said they gathered forensic evidence and because Gopale and Kornke did not work together in investigations, their custody needed to reach the root of the problem.
However, Nikkam’s anticet advocate, emerged from Gopale, opposed the remand extension applicant, the addition of prisoners was not intended for the extraction of information from the defendant.
He handed over that the defendant had been in police custody for the past seven days and the extension of detention was not needed.
The application for the extension of police detainees was also opposed by the KORKE lawyer.
The court, after hearing the argument of both parties, rejected the extension of the detention extension and sent a duo to be imprisoned under the judicial resistance.
Fir in this case was named Param Bir Singh and seven others, including five Mumbai police officers, as accused.
Five policemen mentioned in Fir is DCP (Crime Branch) Akbar Pathhan, Assistant Commissioner of Police Shrikant Shinde, ACP Sanjay Patil, Duo Arrested by Korke and Gopale.
During the investigation, the police had arrested the former Agarwal Business Partner Sanjay Punamia and his colleague Sunil Jain in this case.
They are currently running out of guarantees.
In accordance with the FIR, Agrawal accused that based on the case of “wrong”, Param Bir Singh and other police officers have extorted money from him at Punamia’s orders.
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