Summary:
The officer said that after the transfer of the previous SDPO, he has been given temporary charge of Peth division and that he had not never met Patil or visited Peth. He is then seen telling the hotelier that he can meet the new DySP in person and get his hafta lessened from him as he could not do anything at the present moment.Patil is also seen showing a photograph of the new Dy SP on his mobile phone to the hotelier and assuring him that he would ask the senior officer to reduce the hafta soon.Meanwhile, the DySP in question has said that he heads another branch of the rural police. Nashik: The Nashik rural police have suspended a head constable after a video purportedly showing him demanding money from a hotelier went viral on social media, causing a huge embarrassment to the force.Senior officers of rural police said an internal inquiry will initiated against the cop soon.The video shows the cop, Vilas Patil, arriving at the hotel in a private car and demanding Rs 50,000 at the behest of a sub-divisional police officer of Peth.The hotelier is seen requesting Patil that the ‘hafta’ is too much and that he cannot afford it because the business is down.In the video, Patil is seen telling the hotelier that the new Dy SP who has taken charge is very tough and “I cannot dare tell him to reduce the hafta.”The head constable is also seen saying that no hotelier along the road has asked him to reduce the hafta and he is the only one who is asking for a reduction..