Overview

• Police say garment trader Vikas Gupta was coerced out of ₹10.3 lakh at Bandra Terminus on September 1 by men posing as policemen.
• The alleged impostors, Nilesh Kalsulkar and Praveen Shukla, were arrested after investigators traced them through station footage and technical analysis.
• GRP assistant sub-inspector Vijaya Ingawale was arrested and suspended over her alleged role, and Bandra GRP senior inspector Nandkumar Khadikar was suspended.
• An FIR cites personation and related offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and investigators say the case points to a wider racket with additional suspects being sought.
• In a separate operation, GRP arrested two Uttar Pradesh men linked to 16 night-train thefts and recovered valuables worth about ₹22 lakh, with a search on for four more suspects.