3 Police personnel & a Private individual Held for Extortion of Money from Massage Centre

Hyderabad: The sleuths of Central Crime Station (C.C.S), Detective Department (DD), Hyderabad arrested three police personnel and a private individual who were indulging in extortion of money from a massage centre. The arrested Accused people are Bojjagani Venugopal, Banavath Shashi Kumar, Peri Vijay Babu, and Kateeb Ahmad. The three accused persons are working in different Police Stations presently and the fourth is a private person who is informant and an associate. The R.Raju lodged a complaint at CCS, Hyd stating that since one month he is running “Luxury Family Saloon & Spa” at Road No.10, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad by obtaining GHMC license. That, One Surya is working as Manager along with three therapists cum beauticians and one telephone caller at the SPA. On 08-02-18 at about 6 pm the accused barged into his SPA saying that they are police personnel from Task Force and detained the four girls and the Manager in one room and called the complainant who is the owner of the SPA and demanded money from him for not booking a case. After due negotiations Raju paid Rs.1,35,000/- to them. They also took away the DVR of the CCTV Cameras in the SPA for escaping from being detected. A case in Cr.No.26/18 U/s 342, 384 IPC was registered at CCS, Hyderabad. The accused persons were arrested by the Special Team -1, CCS, Hyderabad and All the accused confessed of having committed this offence. The Police recovered Rs.95,000/- and DVR from their possession, further investigation is going-on.