Four Mumbai Cops Plant Drugs On Man, Caught On Camera, Suspended

Mumbai: At least four Mumbai police personnel have been suspended for allegedly planting drugs on man. A CCTV of the incident has also gone viral on social media.

As seen in the video, the officers allegedly took the drugs from their own pockets and attempted to frame the man in a false drug case.

Those suspended included a police sub-inspector and three constables, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone XI) Rajtilak Roshan.

The policemen, attached to the Anti-Terror Cell of the Khar police station, raided an open plot of land in Kalina area of the city on Friday evening and detained a man called Daniel, sources said.

But CCTV footage of the incident purportedly showed one of the policemen slipping something in the suspect's hip pocket.

Speaking to a local news channel, Daniel claimed that the policemen first threatened to frame him in a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act case, but after realising that their actions were captured in a CCTV camera, he was released.

DCP Roshan said that disciplinary action was initiated against the four cops for not following set procedure and for suspected actions as seen in the video, and they were suspended pending inquiry.

"They reached the spot after getting information about drugs, but everything (they did) is seen in the CCTV," he said.

An associate of Daniel alleged while speaking to the news channel that he was targeted at the behest of a builder over a dispute regarding the plot where the incident took place.

With inputs from PTI