Fake coin racket: 2 cops booked on charges of extortion, corruption

A police inspector, whose team busted a fake coin manufacturing unit in Outer Delhi’s Bawana Industrial Area last year, and his sub-inspector, have been booked on charges of extortion and under the Prevention of Corruption (POC) Act. Two separate cases have been registered against Inspector Samarpal Singh and Sub-Inspector Ram Kumar at Rohini district’s Prashant Vihar police station after an internal enquiry conducted by the vigilance branch substantiated the allegations of two arrested accused in the case, Naresh Kumar and Ravinder Kumar Chawala, who alleged that the two policemen took Rs 9 lakh and Rs 2 lakh from them respectively and assured them of their release.