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As per the constabulary ailment filed by the builder, the 5 accused person been demanding extortion wealth from the developer institution since 2013 by threatening to halt operation enactment astatine the site. (Express File/ Representative Image)
Samta Nagar constabulary successful Kandivali booked 5 people, including a woman, connected Monday aft they allegedly extorted Rs 14.50 lakh and demanded Rs 50 lakh much from the president of a developer institution truthful that the steadfast could proceed SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) task enactment successful the area.
The constabulary person booked Amarbahadur Yadav, Govind Pawar, Balkrishna Palkar, Vishnu Pawar, and Divya Vichare connected the ailment of Ravindra Jadhav, the ineligible advisor of Damodar Suruchi Developer Private Limited. The complainant (the developer company) has been processing an SRA task successful Hanuman Nagar, Kandivali (East) since 2013. Construction of buildings nether the SRA task had been completed and the developer was successful the process of handing implicit the flats to the slum residents.
As per the constabulary ailment filed by the builder, the 5 accused person been demanding extortion wealth from the developer institution since 2013 by threatening to halt operation enactment astatine the site.
The institution gave a full of Rs 14.60 lakh to the accused Govind Pawar done cheques connected antithetic occasions betwixt May 2013 and December 2019 truthful that operation enactment could proceed smoothly.
Pawar had further distributed this wealth with 4 different accused persons, the company’s lawyer alleged successful the FIR.
When the operation enactment of the SRA constituent successful the task was astir to beryllium completed successful March 2024, Dinesh Bansal, the company’s chairman, visited the site.
The accused persons excessively visited the tract astir this clip and demanded and extorted wealth of Rs 50 lakh from Bansal and threatened him saying they would not let the enactment to proceed astatine the tract if they were not paid, the lawyer alleged successful his statement.
But arsenic the complainant institution gave lone Rs 8 lakh successful April this year, the accused idiosyncratic created a country astatine the operation tract and abused workers, the lawyer further alleged.
During the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the accused persons erected defamatory banners astir institution president Dinesh Bansal and tried to make hostility successful the country by instigating the slum residents, the constabulary said.
After waiting for immoderate months, the complainant institution yet approached the constabulary and filed a ailment against the five.
The constabulary person booked the 5 accused nether applicable sections of extortion, cheating, defamation, abuse, and transgression breach of spot of the Indian Penal Code.
“After uncovering cognisable worldly successful the builder’s ailment against the 5 accused, we person registered an FIR against them and would soon nonstop them notices,” said an serviceman from Samta Nagar constabulary station.
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