Varanasi: Police at Sureri station in Jaunpur district registered an FIR against Rajendra Dubey, Vanshnarayan Giri and four unidentified policemen for framing Sushil Kumar Pandey, a resident of Chilbila under Baragaon police station area in Varanasi district, in a false case and planting an illegal firearm as evidence to extort money from him.
His family members reached Sureri police station and after negotiations paid Rs 1.05 lakh in cash, according to Pandey. The transactions were of Rs 55,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 299. The victim requested that CCTV footage from Sureri police station dated Sep 13 be secured.
Pandey alleged that the men identified themselves as policemen though they were in plain clothes and did not show him their identity cards. He was taken to Sureri police station in Jaunpur, outside Varanasi, without informing the local police station. At the police station, the accused made him hold an illegal firearm and recorded a video. He further alleged that he was assaulted and forced to disclose his mobile UPI details, after which money was transferred online three times to Vanshnarayan Giri’s account. Pandey provided the date, time and transaction IDs of all three payments as evidence. He also sought to save the video in which he was made to hold the firearm and the paper on which his signatures were taken, describing them as crucial evidence.
Pandey claimed the policemen demanded Rs 5 lakh and threatened to send him to jail in cases under the NDPS Act by planting ganja and other narcotics along with the firearm as evidence if he failed to pay.
SP said an FIR was registered on the victim’s complaint and the investigation was assigned to SP Rural. He was forced to call his family and arrange for the money. He also alleged that after receiving the money, the accused threatened to make the video viral, shoot him in the leg and implicate his entire family in criminal cases if he filed a complaint.
The FIR, lodged late Tuesday evening, includes charges of kidnapping, robbery, extortion and other offences. Jaunpur SP Kunwar Anupam Singh handed over the investigation to SP Rural Ashish Kumar.