"Khaki bandits: Lucknow Crime Branch disbanded for extortion and robbery"

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India Today.in
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13/05/2013
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Khaki bandits: Lucknow Crime Branch disbanded for extortion and robbery
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Loot, extortion and snatching appear to be the primary job of Crime Branch of Lucknow police. It was going on under the nose of senior officers for the last one year. In many cases, the same Crime Branch officers were investigating the cases of loot in which they were involved.

When exposed by a local tobacco manufacturer Tej Narayan, a red-faced State Government on Monday suspended three sub-inspectors and six constables and attached to police-line 21 cops including two inspectors and three sub-inspectors.

The government has also disbanded the Crime Branch in the state capital and decided to reconstitute it.

Trying to play down the incident, J Ravindra Gaur, SSP of Lucknow claimed that one team of Crime Branch sleuths were committing such felonies to defame another team of the Crime Branch.

Tej Narayan, who runs a gutka (tobacco) factory in North Lucknow told Arun Kumar, Additional Director General of Police in his complaint that some policemen conducted a raid on his factory last week and demanded Rs.20 lakh as bribe to let him run it.

Since gutka manufacturing was declared illegal in the state recently, he had promised to pay some money.

"Some people barged into my house on Saturday night, misbehaved with my family members, broke the locker and decamped with Rs.10 lakh in cash. I had a hunch that this was the work of the same policemen and so met the ADG. He seemed to agree with what I was saying and paraded the crime branch members before me. I easily identified them", he said.

Gaur said, "Since one team of crime branch was cracking the cases of loot and bank robbery which took place in recent months, the other team thought to defame them by doing crime."

But an officer said on the condition of anonymity that the same policemen have done many crimes in past.

"The primary information suggest that these crime branch members had committed more such crimes in past and then they were assigned to crack the cases. It is a matter of another investigation", he said.

It is not the first case in which the policemen were found involved in organized crime. Earlier, some policemen were found running a kidnapping racket in Kanpur.

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