Click to play videoMumbai: Mumbai anti-extortion cell officers are under the scanner for the custodial death of a Dubai-based diamond merchant, who was the prime accused in a Rs 2 crore cheating scam.
Police officers say the diamond merchant, 40-year-old Deepak Mehta, jumped off the sixth floor, while being questioned, and died.
But the anti-extortion cell officers are now suspects in his custodial death.
It seems it was an interrogation that went horribly wrong.
The Dubai-based diamond merchant was taken to the Gurunagar Building on Sunday afternoon by a team of four anti-extortion cell officers for questioning.
Officers say, Mehta got up suddenly during the interrogation, pushed a constable aside, ran to the terrace of the building and committed suicide
Mehta had allegedly cheated a city firm and fled the country with diamonds worth close to Rs 2 crore in 2007 and a look out notice was issued against him.
Based on the notice, immigration authorities in Delhi handed him over to the Mumbai police in November 2009.
Mehta had been in police custody for 14 days before his death.
A case of an accidental and custodial death has been registered at the DN Nagar police station. The statements of the anti-extortion cell officials present at the time of his death have also been recorded.
But the case raises several unanswered questions: Why was Mehta taken to this residential building for interrogation? Was there a threat to the diamond merchant's life? Is this just a case of suicide?
The anti extortion cell officers who were investigating the diamond cheating case have become now suspects in a case of custodial death.
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