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Delhi Police asked to speed up investigation

Extortion case against four senior cops

Doctor’s plea to transfer cross-case rejected

New Delhi: A city court here has asked the Delhi police to expedite its probe against four senior police officers, including two Assistant Commissioners of Police, accused of criminally intimidating a doctor for extortion.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate M C Gupta on Friday directed the Delhi Police Crime Branch to speed up its investigation after it informed that an FIR has been registered against the four police officers and a woman on the complaint of Dr Mukesh Aggarwal.

Dr. Aggarwal, who used to run a nursing home at Narela in West Delhi, had lodged a complaint, alleging that two ACPs Ram Chander and Roop Ram along with Inspector Jitender and Sub-Inspector Vinod Gautam had tried to extort money from him on the alleged threat that he would be implicated in a rape case.

They, along with a woman accused, had already taken Rs.5 lakh from him and further demanded Rs.50 lakh, Dr. Aggarwal alleged, adding the woman had been once treated at his nursing home six years ago.

The court, taking Dr. Aggarwal’s complaint into account, had ordered the police on September 11 to register an FIR against the accused.

Meanwhile, the ACMM has rejected a plea of the doctor to transfer a cross case, registered against him on the complaint of the woman, an accused with the police officers in the case, to its court.

An FIR of rape against Dr Aggarwal had been lodged on the direction of Metropolitan Magistrate Smita Garg on the complaint of 38-year-old woman, who alleged that the doctor had raped her during the course of treatment.- PTI

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