India, April 12 -- The station house officer (SHO) of Sector 18 police station has been suspended for alleged poor supervision and dereliction of duty in an extortion case in which multiple police officers were involved, senior officers aware of the matter said on Friday.

The suspended officer was identified as inspector Surender Kumar. The action came on the direction of Gurugram police commissioner Vikas Kumra Arora following the arrests of three police personnel and a special police officer on Tuesday for allegedly extorting money from a roadside vendor in Sector 18 over the last three months.

Naveen Sharma, ACP Udyog Vihar, said the suspended SHO did not exercise his duty to keep the officers in check. "Till now involvement of only ...