The Dharavi police have arrested a 40-year-old man for demanding Rs 2 lakh from a criminal on the pretext of saving him from being externed. The cops got to know about it when the accused went to the police station and expressed his inability to pay such a huge sum. On being questioned, he revealed that a person by the name Ramlu Bamani demanded the money from him on behalf of the cops.

According to the police, Vinayak Kuldev, 41, was prosecuted under the Maharashtra Gambling Ban Act, but the following day he got bail from the court on a bond of R5,000. Thereafter, Bamani approached Kuldev and said that he got to know the latter would be externed. Then Kuldev said that he knew many police officers in Dharavi and Kurla, and if he paid R2 lakh to him, he would save him from being externed.