Summary:
Jodhpur, Feb 18 (PTI) Three policemen, including a station house officer of a police station in Rajasthan’s Pali district, were arrested on Friday for allegedly extorting Rs 2 lakh from a Punjab-based businessman.
Two others involved in the run and a search has been launched to nab them too, Pali Superintendent of Police Rajan Dushyant said.
All five had been suspended earlier on the complain of the businessman and three them were arrested on Friday following an inquiry by a senior officer, he said.
Dushyant said a Punjab-based imitation jewellery businessman Surendra Kumar had come to him with a complaint that he along with two other including a local person had been travelling to Sirohi from Ajmer on February 15.
"He said his vehicle was stopped by some persons in two private vehicles near Jadan toll near Sojat city at about 8 pm," said Dushyant.
Five people including one in police uniform asked him to out of his vehicle come and made him to sit in one of their vehicles, the SP said.