A tense situation erupted in South Mumbai when a woman sub-inspector allegedly misbehaved with a group of people at a police station. The incident prompted the authorities to initiate an enquiry into the incident, an official said on Monday.
A video of the incident that took place at the VP Road police station in on September 18 has been going viral on various social media platforms.
The officials, while commenting on the incident, said that a group of people, including a woman, had arrived at the police station to lodge a complaint when the on-duty woman sub-inspector got involved in a heated argument with them.
They further added that, “During the verbal spat, the woman officer removed the name tag from her uniform and threw it at them, even as one of them was recording the incident on his mobile phone,” as cited by news agency PTI.
The officials, while taking the situation seriously, said, “taking cognisance of the incident, the authorities have ordered an enquiry by the Assistant Commissioner of Police of Girgaon division,” as per PTI.
Mumbai Police nabs fake cop
In a different scenario, earlier on 12 September, Mumbai Police`s Crime Branch Unit-6 had also arrested three men, including a fake cop who allegedly cheated a woman by promising her husband a job in the Income Tax Department.
As per the official statement from the Mumbai Police, the accused used fake documents and posed as government officials to carry out the scam.
According to police sources, the main accused, Vishal Arun Kamble (35), pretended to be a police officer and convinced the victim, a vegetable vendor from Mahul MHADA Colony in Chembur, that her husband would get a government job.
Kamble, along with Sahil Nitin Gaikwad (20), who acted as a mediator, and Prakash Dinkar Bhalerao (40), the alleged mastermind, took a total of Rs 8 lakh from the woman in several instalments. Despite the payment, no job was given, and the money was not returned.
The trio were found to be creating fake appointment letters and job-related documents to deceive people. Acting on a tip-off, the Crime Branch team, led by API Dhutaraj, ASI Desai, PC Bodhare, and HCD Dale, used technical analysis to locate the suspects. Mastermind Prakash Bhalerao was arrested at Suman Nagar in Chunabhatti.