Officers of the Mumbai Crime Branch Unit IX have arrested a fake cop who along with five associates, had kidnapped and extorted money from a 26-year-old after threatening to book him for drug consumption. The suspect was arrested recently and officers identified his associates, too.

The modus operandi went like this. The complainant was at a bar with a female friend when a group of four men claiming to be police officers approached him demanding he accompany them. Telling him that they have found out that he had consumed drugs, they forced the frightened man to accompany them in an auto-rickshaw and them demanded money threatening him with legal action. He paid them a substantial sum. They had taken him for a Mumbai darshan in an auto rickshaw.