Pune: Mundhwa police are looking for household service providers and drive service providers from Dhayari and two servants after capturing tempo drivers with respect to casts and casts registered by an IT professional.
The police identified a driver who was arrested as Ashwin Raikar (27), also a resident of Dhayari.
A police officer said, “Raikar’s employer and other people involved in this case have adopted modus operandi to target people financially to extort money on behalf of the transportation of their goods.
In the most recent cases, four gangs request additional RS5.
000 from IT professionals despite attacking transportation for RS42,000.
“IT professionals, who recently joined other companies in Mumbai, wanted to shift goods and household bikes, and rented services from the Dhayari Agency.
He paid RS25,000 as a down payment, police said.
Ashwini Bhosale Sub-Inspector told Tii, “The suspects took articles from Mundhwa within January on January 29 but they did not reach Mumbai.
When Techie contacted the suspects by telephone and asked for shipment, they began to embrace him.
They claim they will damage the goods -Thare and demand RS5,000 to provide a tempo location and delivery of goods.
“” The victim then approached us.
We conducted a search for the suspects in the Driving Office and Packers in Dhayari, where we found Raikar.
The suspects have parked the tempo in the area which is isolated, “said Bhosale.