In a series of reports, mid-day has been exposing the extortion racket of BMC’s mask marshals, which on Thursday helped traders at Lamington Road nab two men, who were demanding fines of Rs 1,200. One of them was not in uniform. Shopkeepers took them to the police station, where officers later called their contractor and let them off with a warning.

AMID complaints of marshals harassing citizens, a mid-day correspondent enrolled with a contractor in December and got himself stationed as a marshal at Kalina Santacruz junction on the Western Express Highway. Working for six days, he saw marshals extorting the public and misbehaving with them.