US prosecutors have accused an Indian police officer of helping extort $400,000 (£294,000) from a Los Angeles family by allegedly threatening to implicate their relatives in a false murder investigation in Punjab, in what authorities describe as part of a wider crackdown on transnational organised crime.
The officer, identified as Gurinderjit Singh, has not been arrested, but US officials said they intend to seek his extradition from India. The allegations form part of 'Operation Hard Ball', a multinational law enforcement operation targeting India-based criminal syndicates operating across North America and Europe.
