Hyderabad, May 24 -- The Cyberabad police have arrested a pseudo-IPS officer allegedly involved in several cases of extortion and kidnapping. The accused, Naga Raju Karthik Raghu Varma aka Karthik, 25, is from Bhimavaram in Andhra Pradesh.

The police seized a country-made pistol, nine rounds and other material, all worth Rs 2 lakh from his possession.

The accused was passionate about working as a police officer since his college days. Previously, he had appeared for various positions in the police but never made it through. Eventually, he got addicted to earning easy money by cheating innocent people disguised as police officer.

Karthik recently moved to Hyderabad and purchased police uniforms, handcuffs, lathi, pistol pouch, etc from ...