Bengaluru police have arrested four people for allegedly masquerading as police officers and robbing a 25-year-old resident of Vidyaranyapura in the northeastern part of Bengaluru on December 7. The accused have been identified as Mallikarjun.S., alias Malli, 27, Promod V., 30, and Vinay H.T., 36, who posed as police officers, and Hruthvik P., 24, who assisted the trio, police said.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), Mallikarjun, dressed in a police sub-inspector’s uniform, along with Promod and Vinay, who impersonated police officers in plainclothes, barged into the victim’s house in Narasipura Layout, Vidyaranyapura, around 11.30 p.m. on December 7.
Mallikarjun allegedly accused the victim of peddling drugs and told him that his house would be searched. The fake officers searched the house and assaulted the victim with lathis and iron rods before transferring ₹87,000 from his bank account and taking custody of ₹55,000 in cash.
“They accused me of earning the seized money by selling drugs and took it away. They threatened to book a drugs case against me if I reported the incident to anyone,” the victim told the police, adding that he filed a complaint after growing suspicious about the ‘policemen’.
