Fake CBI officer arrested for demanding Rs 12 lakh from owner of Pimpri Chinchwad company

The constabulary person identified the accused arsenic Vinod Annapa Thorvat, 39, of Gadhinglaj successful Kolhapur. As per the FIR, Wankhade is 1 of the partners who tally the Safetechno Services Company located connected the NDA – Pashan roadworthy successful Bavdhan.

On October 22, helium had parked his car and was going to his bureau astir 9.30 americium erstwhile the accused approached him by posing arsenic a CBI officer. The accused made the complainant talk implicit mobile with different idiosyncratic claiming to beryllium an serviceman astatine the CBI’s “special portion successful Mumbai”.

This idiosyncratic said they person received a record against the complainant’s institution and demanded Rs 15 lakh to adjacent it. The complainant said helium spoke to his partners astir it. The accused past near the spot saying helium would travel backmost again successful the evening.

Accordingly, helium came adjacent the complainant’s bureau astir 5.15 p.m. and called him down. The complainant went to conscionable him with his partner. The accused showed them his individuality paper bearing his photograph and a logo of the CBI. He further negotiated with the complainant and his spouse and asked them to springiness him Rs 12 lakh connected October 24 to adjacent the record against them. The complainant past informed the Pimpri Chinchwad constabulary arsenic his institution was not into immoderate incorrect practices.

A constabulary squad laid a trap and arrested the accused erstwhile helium came to cod the wealth connected the evening of October 24 adjacent the complainant’s office.

The constabulary past booked him nether Sections 204 (personating nationalist servant), 308(3) (extortion), 336(3)(4) (forgery), 338 (forgery of important documents), 340 3(5) (fake document) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Further probe is on, the constabulary said.