SC revokes bail of three GRP cops booked in extortion case
MUMBAI, June 3 -- Coming down on alleged abuse of power by police officers , the Supreme Court has cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to three Mumbai Central Government Railway Police (GRP) officers accused of trying to extort money from a Rajasthan jeweller and his family at Mumbai Central Railway Station last year.
The May 27 order was passed by a bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and K Vinod Chandran, which set aside a Bombay high court order granting pre-arrest bail to the accused policemen - Rahul Datta Bhosale, Lalit Ramchandra Jagtap and Anil Sitaram Rathod.
The case stems from an August, 2025, incident when a jeweller from Rajasthan was travelling from Mumbai Central with his minor daughter and his cousin. The three policemen allegedly detained the trio after finding a 14-gram gold piece and Rs.31,900 in cash in the jeweller's baggage. Though the jeweller provided a satisfactory explanation, the officers took them to an unlit room on the platform and coerced them to part with the cash in lieu of letting them keep the gold....
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