JJ MARG police officers seem to have landed themselves in hot water after they were seen being felicitated on Wednesday by a former D-Gang member, Salim Fruitwala, and a hardened criminal, Faisal Mehmood Ghanchi, accused in heinous crimes, for solving a kidnapping case.

The infant was kidnapped on November 21 and a five-member team of JJ Marg police had helped reunite her with her mother in less than 24 hours. Sources told mid-day that the felicitation programme was organised near Nawab Masjid in Parsi Galli by Salim Fruitwala, the brother-in-law of Chhota Shakeel. Sources at JJ Marg police station said, "We were not aware who had organised the programme. In the evening, some local residents came to the police station and requested some officers to accompany them for a programme they had organised to acknowledge the police's effort. We realised who was behind this only after we had reached the venue. By then it was too late to leave."