Video: Man Posing As Cop Jumps Into Auto, Demands Rs 50,000 From Mumbai Woman For Using Vape
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The woman said that the man refused to provide identification or other formal identity, following which she sensed foul play and began recording the whole exchange inside the auto.
A woman in Mumbai recently shared a disturbing incident wherein a man claiming to be a police officer climbed into her autorickshaw and attempted to fine her for using a vape. In a series of posts on X (formerly X), the woman's sibling detailed the incident which took place in Mumbai's Powai area. The woman claimed that a man in plain clothes tried to arrest her and threatened legal action if she didn't pay him Rs 50,000. She also said that the man refused to provide identification or other formal identity, following which she sensed foul play and began recording the whole exchange inside the auto. Encounter with a Suspicious Cop Over a Vape in Mumbai. Asked 50k to let go.@MumbaiPolice please look into this incident.#fraud#femalesecuritypic.twitter.com/gitNVPCngU
"I'm currently on MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) Road and this man followed me and got into my auto-rickshaw. He's forcibly trying to take me to Powai Chowki," the woman said in the clip, which showed her sitting at the back of the three-wheeler with a man dressed in a white shirt and pants sitting next to her. As she pointed the camera at the man, he covered his face with his hand and attempted to break her phone. "You cannot take me anywhere without a female police officer present," the woman said.
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