Two superintendents of police and three other senior policemen are among 19 persons against whom a case has been registered in connection with the kidnapping and extortion of an employee of a firm in Gujarat's Kutch district, the police said on Saturday.
The Crime Investigation Department on Thursday registered an FIR against two SPs, three DySPs, a sub-inspector, and owners of Electrotherm Limited, among others, nearly a month after the Supreme Court lifted the stay on the Gujarat high court order directing the probe agency to do the same, they said.
According to a release issued by the CID, Parmanad Seerwani, a resident of Gandhidham in Kutch district, lodged a police complaint against two company owners and 11 others for kidnapping and extortion committed in December 2015.
The probe agency, in the release, did not disclose the exact roles of the accused police officers, citing that it would affect the investigation.
Former Kutch (East) SPs GV Barot and Bhavna Patel and DySPs RD Desai, DS Vaghela and VJ Gadhvi, and sub-inspector NK Chauhan have been named in the FIR, the release stated. -- PTI