<p class="title">The police on Saturday arrested a man, who is believed to have acted as a middleman between three absconding CCB policemen and demonetised currency exchange racketeers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police, the arrested man, Ramesh Raju, is a resident of Yelahanka, and has strong links with the Central Crime Branch police, especially with its homicide, burglary, fraud and misappropriation squads.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three CCB policemen - ASI Hombalegowda, and head constables Narasimhamurthy and Gangadhar - have gone missing since they robbed Rs 1 crore from Subanna S Managi, a member of the currency exchange racket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Managi, a BMTC conductor by profession, became part of the racket to make some quick money to settle loans. The police filed a case at the High Grounds station based on Managi's complaint about the robbery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The FIR names six suspects - Venkatesha, Sathyanarayana, Chandrashekar, Vishnu, Ragini and Rathna, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his complaint, Managi had said three men, posing as officers from the Sheshadripuram police station, robbed old currency notes worth Rs 1 crore when he was in a car with Venkatesha. Later, it turned out that they work with the CCB and not at the Sheshadripuram station, as they had claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The three are still absconding, while we are in the process of interviewing the six suspects, who were part of the money exchange racket," DCP Central Division Chandragupta told DH.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are not aware of the developments at the CCB regarding this case," he added.</p>
<p class="title">The police on Saturday arrested a man, who is believed to have acted as a middleman between three absconding CCB policemen and demonetised currency exchange racketeers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to the police, the arrested man, Ramesh Raju, is a resident of Yelahanka, and has strong links with the Central Crime Branch police, especially with its homicide, burglary, fraud and misappropriation squads.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The three CCB policemen - ASI Hombalegowda, and head constables Narasimhamurthy and Gangadhar - have gone missing since they robbed Rs 1 crore from Subanna S Managi, a member of the currency exchange racket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Managi, a BMTC conductor by profession, became part of the racket to make some quick money to settle loans. The police filed a case at the High Grounds station based on Managi's complaint about the robbery.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The FIR names six suspects - Venkatesha, Sathyanarayana, Chandrashekar, Vishnu, Ragini and Rathna, among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In his complaint, Managi had said three men, posing as officers from the Sheshadripuram police station, robbed old currency notes worth Rs 1 crore when he was in a car with Venkatesha. Later, it turned out that they work with the CCB and not at the Sheshadripuram station, as they had claimed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The three are still absconding, while we are in the process of interviewing the six suspects, who were part of the money exchange racket," DCP Central Division Chandragupta told DH.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are not aware of the developments at the CCB regarding this case," he added.</p>