Mumbai: ‘Fake civic officials’ held for extortion after five hours drama | Mumbai News – Times of India

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MUMBAI: Saki Naka police late on Wednesday arrested two Govandi residents reportedly for demanding Rs 36,000 ransom from a shopkeeper for not taking action after showing irregularities in running the business.
Initially, sleuths from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) laid a trap and nabbed the duo–Savarkar Gewade (38) and Zuber Shaikh (42)–thinking that they are BMC officials when they accepted Rs 5,000 via G Pay from the shopkeeper Kodhilal Bangari (37).
Later, the matter was handed over to the Saki Naka police for a further probe when the ACB sleuths found out that the duo was extortionists and not civic officials.
It took almost five-and-a-half hours for the ACB sleuths to nab the duo who kept on changing locations before they accepted Rs 5,000 through G Pay from Bangari. “The duo collected Rs2000 from Bangari’s employee on July 23 after threatening to close their shop for irregularities and told them to inform their employer (Bangari) to keep Rs 36,000 ready. On January 26, they called Bangari to a place in Saki Naka with Rs 5,000 as an installment of the total Rs 36,000,” said a police officer of the Saki Naka police station.
On learning about the threat demand, Bangari approached the ACB with the complaint. “The duo has been extorting money from all the shopkeepers in Khairani Road and Powai. The duo visits the shops daily to extort money. I was fed up giving ransom for the last three months to the duo who impersonated civic officials. The ACB accompanied me to nab the duo who called me on Thursday with Rs 5,000,” Bangari told TOI.
The search for the duo began at 1.45pm on Thursday. “For almost five and a half hours the duo kept us to come to over half a dozen locations before they shared the exact address at a bar in Saki Naka at around 7pm. ACB caught them soon after I transferred Rs 5,000 to them via G Pay,” said Bangari.
A police officer said the ACB laid the trap thinking that the two men are BMC officials but turned out to be Govandi residents who are into the business of extorting money by posing as BMC officials. The duo, one of them who worked as an assistant with a BMC official, knew how the officials work and used to talk in a similar way to extort money from shopkeepers from Khairani Road and Powai for the last three months.

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