Title - Three cops held for extortion in sting operation

HYDERABAD: Tukaramgate police have arrested two constables and home guard of Marredpally police station for extortion.Based on the information provided by locals, on Monday night, a Telugu news channel team went to do a sting operation on sex workers at Secunderabad railway station. Hari Kishan, reporter of the news channel, posing as a custormer, hired a sex worker for Rs 800 for one night and she called an auto to go to her house at Marredpally. After getting into the auto, the sex worker took Rs 800 from the reporter and, at YMCA flyover, their auto was intercepted by a bikepborne man who claimed to be a police constable.The sex worker, who was in collusion with the cops, immediately informed him that Hari hired her for a night by paying Rs 800. The police person immediately called two of his associates and the trio told the woman to leave in the auto. Hari was then taken to an isolated place in Marredpally by the three police personnel and they demanded Rs 25,000 from him. Finally Hari agreed to pay Rs 1500 and took them to HDFC bank ATM in East Marredpally.While Hari was withdrawing the cash, one of the accomplices noticed the TV channel van following them and all the three fled abandoning the bike (AP 24 AJ 8253). Based on the complaint lodged by the reporter, police nabbed Marredpally constables B Uday Kumar, R Subhash and home guard Narasimha on Tuesday evening. Cases were booked against them under Sections 384 (extortion) and 511 (punishment for commitment of offences punishable with life imprisonment) of the IPC and they were remanded in judicial custody.