Overview

• The suspended group includes a police inspector and personnel from Chamarajapete and JJ Nagar stations, pending a departmental inquiry.
• RR Nagar police triggered the case on August 22 by arresting six peddlers and seizing about 1,000 tablets reportedly sold to students and young workers.
• Phone forensics found direct contact and financial-message exchanges between the accused officers and the peddlers, with investigators also noting socialising.
• Investigators allege the officers collected monthly protection payments of Rs 1.5–2 lakh and that the network operated for over a year in western Bengaluru.
• ACP Bharath Reddy escalated the findings to the DCP West, and Vijayanagar ACP Chandan is now leading the detailed probe.