Those officers were charged with having robbed those people, extorting money from them in consideration for not reporting them.
Many millions are being extorted in this way by the landlord class from the people.
I only urge that it may be given as a concession and not be extorted from us in later years.
Disagreeing with the assessors who were in favour of acquittal on all counts, he convicted the police of voluntarily causing hurt to extort confession.
There was a serious risk that unscrupulous landlords would exploit the opportunity to extort key money from desperate prospective tenants.
Other revolutionary guerrillas have prevailed where they have enjoyed or extorted the support or acquiescence of a mass population.
Very occasionally there are cases in which it appears that false confessions have been faked or extorted.
From the newspaper reports it does not appear that the false confessions were extorted by the police, who moreover did not act upon them.
