Angadia extortion case: Mumbai Police take custody of suspended DCP’s kin

With the arrest of Mishra, a total of four persons have been arrested by Mumbai Police in connection with the case.

It has been three weeks since Tripathi’s name has been added as a wanted accused, but he has managed to elude the police.

A senior officer said Mishra was the “receiver” of some of the money allegedly extorted by Tripathi from angadias in Mumbai. “The money trail of the proceeds of the crime leads to him. We suspect there are more receivers and hence we have placed him under arrest in order to question him regarding the same,” the officer said.

According to a source, police found communication between Tripathi and his brother-in-law that further helped them zero in on Mishra. Police are expected to bring Mishra to Mumbai by Thursday evening and he is likely to be produced before the court on Friday, sources said.

Sources also said that the arrest of his brother-in-law was likely to put pressure on Tripathi to appear before police. So far, police have conducted multiple raids in three states to look for Tripathi, but the suspended officer has managed to give them the slip.

Police have conducted simultaneous raids at Navi Mumbai and Lucknow, but couldn’t find him there. Later, police also conducted raids at Rajasthan, but again failed to find Tripathi.

Sources said that even the residence of Tripathi’s family members in Lucknow was found locked when a police team went there recently.

Police had registered an FIR in the matter on February 20, after angadias had complained that police had been extorting money from them. Initially, three policemen were arrested in the case and later, it was found that DCP Tripathi was allegedly also involved, after which he was named as a wanted accused in the case.