Taking advantage of the fact that the city cops are acting against non-essential shops found running in the lockdown, some anti-social elements are posing as the men in uniform to threaten and extort money from the owners of such shops. Recently, the Dahisar police arrested two men who allegedly raided a paan shop in Anand Nagar, kidnapped the shopkeeper and robbed him of Rs 7,000 cash and cigarettes worth Rs 65,000. According to police sources, the duo, posing as officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch, raided vendor Ramesh Chaurasiya’s paan shop and looted cigarette packets. Later, on the pretext of taking him to the police station, they forcibly made him sit in their car and took him to Mira Road. On reaching near the Delhi Darbar hotel, they stopped the car, assaulted him and looted him of Rs 7,000 cash.