Overview
- Police in Juhu, responding after Wednesday’s abduction was reported, arrested two serving constables and launched a search for three accomplices.
- The victim, a Bandra-based forex delivery executive, was intercepted near Juhu Circle, forced into a car, assaulted, threatened with a false case, and driven to Dahisar where his bag with $10,000 was taken.
- Passersby alerted a patrol team that caught one accused at the scene, identified as a constable posted at the Bandra-Kurla Complex station, who was then remanded to 10 days of police custody.
- Officers later arrested a second constable at his Thane residence, and teams are now scanning CCTV along the route and probing how the delivery details were obtained.
- Juhu police registered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s criminal code, for kidnapping, extortion, dacoity and impersonation as three suspects remain at large and the stolen cash is unrecovered, with one report differing on an accused constable’s first name.