Suspended IPS Officer's Brother-In-Law Arrested In Extortion Case: Mumbai Cops
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During the investigation, the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) found that Ashutosh Mishra had received the money allegedly extorted by DCP Tripathi, who is posted in Mumbai, he said.
A Mumbai crime branch team probing the angadia (traditional couriers) extortion case has arrested assistant sales tax commissioner Ashutosh Mishra, brother-in-law of suspended IPS officer Saurabh Tripathi, from Basti in Uttar Pradesh, a police official said on Wednesday.
During the investigation, the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) found that Mishra had received the money allegedly extorted by DCP Tripathi, who is posted in Mumbai, he said.
The CIU team apprehend Mishra, an Assistant Commissioner of Sales Tax, from Basti Tuesday, the official said.
Mishra was produced before a court in Basti which granted his transit remand to the Mumbai Police, he said.
