P Siva, a 23-year-old man from Pidimagoyi village in East Godavari district, was caught by the Chillakallu police in Krishna district last year while bringing two bottles of liquor from Hyderabad. A criminal case was registered against constable M Sivaramakrishna, who was accused of abetting the youth to commit suicide after the officer allegedly harassed the youth, an official from the Krishna District Superintendent of Police (SP) office said.

Shiva had died by suicide this year, following which a video of him emerged, where he said that he was harassed and threatened by the constable from the Chillakallu police station after being summoned on August 9. He claimed that the constable threatened him (Shiva) of booking him in a ganja smuggling case, if he failed to pay Rs 1 lakh. In the video, Shiva said that he was called to the police station recently by Sivaramakrishna as part of a summons notice, following which the policeman allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 1 lakh, to write off the case against him.

Shiva’s brother, Rajesh, alleged that his brother was harassed by the police, who demanded Rs 1 lakh in bribe and was threatened that a case of ganja smuggling would be booked against him. Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal had earlier said that there will be severe action against the policemen in this particular case, if they were found engaging in illegal or corrupt practices on duty.

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