Under colour of duty, means where a police officer, taking advantage of his position as a police officer and availing himself of the opportunity coerces a person to pay illegal gratification to him, this cannot be said to have been done under colour of duty, Bhanuprasad Hariprasad Dave v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 1323: (1968) Cr LJ 505.
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