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Fake policemen try to dupe couple, held

By Our Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM, NOV. 4. Three persons, who impersonated as policemen, were arrested by the Two Town Police on charges of impersonation, abduction for rape, outraging the modesty of a woman and extortion.

Plot victims

A man from Rayagada, who got married on October 30 and his wife fell prey to the three persons, who included a Naval employee.

According to the police, S. Sankara Rao, 21, and his wife came to the city on Wednesday and were staying at a lodge at the New Colony. They went to the house of Sankara Rao's relatives at Allipuram and were returning when three persons accosted them saying that they were from the police.

They said they did not believe the two to be man and wife and took Rs.100 from Sankara Rao. One of them accompanied him to the hotel and took another Rs. 200 from him.

By the time they returned, the other two forcibly took the woman to an isolated area. Sankara Rao informed the locals waited there. The three came later for tea and Sankara Rao and others nabbed them and handed them over to the police.

Police said the woman managed to escape but not before they had outraged her modesty. The three arrested are Bhagavan Dakua, a Navy employee, Bharani Kumar and Gudivada Sridhar, who works in a petrol bunk. The Two Circle Inspector, K.V. Ramana Murthy, is investigating.

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