Bengaluru: Byatarayanapura Police have arrested three absconding men including a home guard personnel, who had posed as cops and looted a senior citizen by threatening him earlier this week.

The police have held Manjunath of Bapuji Nagar, Arun Kumar of Kalidas Circle, and Nagaraja (31) of Kasturba Colony in Girinagar. While Manjunath is a home guard, his two acquaintances are auto-rickshaw drivers, a senior police officer has said.

The police have also confiscated Rs. 6 lakhs in cash, one gold nugget weighing 167 grams, an auto rickshaw, and a car from the accused.

On February 7, Sundaram, a senior citizen, who was traveling to Coimbatore, was walking towards Satellite Bus Stand on Mysore Road when he was approached by two men dressed in black jackets. They introduced themselves as cops and asked Sundaram to open the bag for checking.

The duo was joined by the third man, who arrived in a car, and all three of them looted Sundaram of Rs. 6 lahks in cash as well as gold biscuits worth Rs. 3 lahks.

The Byatarayanapura Police officers, who registered a case and investigated the matter, arrested the three accused.

Similar incidents of miscreants, home guards, and police constables posing as higher police officials and harassing and extorting money from commoners are on the rise. Earlier, a home guard attached to the BBMP was arrested for harassing a young couple for sitting near a lake “without permission”.

In another incident, two police constables harassed a married couple for walking on the streets at night. The two constables were dismissed from the service after inquiry by Bengaluru Police.

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