Six held for trying to extort Rs 55 lakh from BMC engineer

A transgression subdivision serviceman said connected July 27, the technologist received a telephone from a idiosyncratic who claimed to beryllium from Abhinav Charitable trust. He told the technologist that they recovered his acquisition degrees fake and called him to their office. They demanded Rs 55 lakhs from him to settee the matter.

The technologist told them his degrees were genuine and that helium contacted an intermediary, who successful crook contacted 2 others helium knew astatine the charitable spot to find retired wherefore the technologist was being harassed, said a constabulary officer.

“These 2 people, whom the intermediary contacted, besides started demanding wealth from the victim. They frightened him saying 2 radical were plotting his execution implicit immoderate enactment helium had taken against them. They demanded Rs 2 lakhs from the technologist for his safety,” said the constabulary adding that the unfortunate heeded to their demand.

However, a fewer days later, 2 others contacted the technologist again and demanded Rs 3 lakh more. When the complainant said helium had made the payment, they told him the outgo has been made to others, not them. Realising that they would proceed extorting wealth from him, helium approached constabulary past week.

The anti-extortion compartment of the Mumbai transgression subdivision asked him to proceed talking to them and hold to pay. The unfortunate recorded the speech wherever the accused demanding Rs 3 lakhs. He called them successful Goregaon connected Monday.

A constabulary squad laic waiting arsenic the unfortunate took Rs 3 lakhs to springiness the accused successful dummy notes. As soon arsenic the accused accepted the money, they were caught red-handed by the constabulary team.

An FIR was registered astatine the Goregaon constabulary presumption pursuing which the accused were produced earlier a tribunal connected Tuesday, which sent them to constabulary custody till September 27.

The accused person been identified arsenic Pratap Chokandars alias Babloo (49), Abhayraj Patel (48), Santosh Poojari (45), Shekar Sakpal (33), Ashiva Pandey (33) and Rafique Mulani (42).