Kolkata, Nov 8, 2025

The police have caught a youth, posing as a ‘Special Branch Officer’ of Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police headquarters, on charges of extorting money from villagers threatening to arrest them, police officials said on Saturday.

The youth was arrested by officers of Memari Police Station in East Burdwan district of West Bengal on Thursday.

According to the police, the man went door to door and demanded a large sum of money in the name of a conducting a search.

He had trapped the villagers by threatening them with arrest if they did not pay the money.

According to police sources, the name of the accused is Monirul Sheikh alias Moni.

He hails from Shaktipur area of Murshidabad district.

When the accused was produced before the Burdwan Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court o

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