Mumbai: Amboli police have registered a case of extortion, criminal intimidation, the loss of evidence and forgery, among the other charges, against three, including a deputy police commissioner and a police officer who was dismissed, based on complaints by property dealers and investors from Andheri.
Fir has been registered with the Deputy Commissioner of Police Akbar Pathhan, Inspector Chimaji Adhav and fired the Sunil Mane police inspector.
Pathhan has been accused, together with former Police Commissioner of Param Singh, in the case of extortion while Mane was in police custody in the case of explosives where the Gelatin stick was planted in a vehicle outside Industrialist Mukesh Ambani.
Fir that was registered following the Magistrate Court’s instructions after Teacher’s businessman Singh aka King Chouhan filed a personal complaint in the court who accused the police demanding Rs 17 Lakh because it did not register a fake case against him.
Chouhan accused that despite paying the number, he was arrested in March 2020 by Crime Branch Unit-10 based on cases registered at the MIDC police station.
He said the harassment occurred between November 2019 and February 2020.
Police Commissioner Mumbai Hemant Nagrrale said the case was registered with the command of the Magistrate Court.
Police Mumbai Pro DCP S Chaitanya said a case under the Indian criminal code section for a criminal conspiracy, the public servant frame the wrong document, the loss of evidence, causing injury, forgery, humiliation and criminal intimidation had been registered with Amboli police.
They will submit an investigation report to the Magistrate Court.
Pathan is not available for comments.
Adhav said the arrest of Chouhan was original because he was part of the ‘rice pulling gang’.
“He was arrested for deceiving a lot of Crores Rupee investors,” Adhav told Toi.
He said they had submitted a chargesheet in the case in 2020, and since then Chouhan tried to frame them.
Chouhan has moved the Bombay high court but in vain.
A police officer said, “Even the investigation conducted by the commissioner together at that time Vinoy Choubey and the report submitted to HC said that Chouhan’s allegations were unfounded and Chouhan’s request to archive the FIR rejected.” The police said Chouhan was part of the four member gang involved in deceiving people with the pretext of selling “rice towers” metal devices.
They sell metal made of iridium copper for people who are easily fooled, claiming it is very valuable and makes lakh rupees in the process.
Gang members told investors that around RS 39,000 Crore had been collected at the Reserve Bank of India from metal sales, and they were asked to pay at least Rs 20 Crore as tax to get an amount.