Last week, the Thane police issued a lookout notice against senior Maharashtra IPS officer Param Bir Singh in connection with an extortion case.
Tanna alleged that when Singh was Thane police commissioner between January 2018 to February 2019, the accused extorted Rs 1.25 crore from him by summoning him to the office of the Anti-Extortion Cell and threatening to frame him up in serious criminal cases.
An NIA spokesperson said that the anti-terror probe agency has filed a charge sheet before the Special NIA Court in Ranchi on Thursday against 17 PLFI members from Bihar and Jharkhand.
The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday arrested two people, who posed as jailed gangster Neeraj Bawania over the phone, for trying to extort Rs 50 lakh from a businessman in the national capital. The two accused, identified as Mohammad Moin and Adil, were arrested in connection with the case.
The suspended policemen are Head Constable Makhan Lal, Constable Ramavtar and Constable Harish. While Lal and Ramavtar were posted at the Mohan Garden police station, Harish was posted at Delhi Police's anti-narcotic cell of west district, Officials said.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sexual harassment case against former Union Minister Chinmayanand and the extortion case against the alleged victim, a law student, on Wednesday, filed charge sheets in both the cases.
"The probe into the case has been completed and the charge sheet will be filed in the court tomorrow. The pen drive which was snatched from the victim law student in Dausa (Rajasthan), has been recovered from BJP leaders DPS Rathore and Ajit Singh," IG-rank officer Naveen Arora, heading the SIT, told reporters in Shahjahanpur on Tuesday.
A local court here on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Sanjay Singh, a friend of the law student who has accused former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand of rape. Sanjay Singh was booked in a case of extortion along with the woman and two others after they allegedly demanded Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand. The woman is currently lodged in a jail.
The accused were caught while extorting money from a call centre owner for removing his name from an FIR, which was registered against him in November last year.
The accused, Aparna Manohar Mohare, posed as a cop and contacted the 20-year-old victim in Mumbra, claiming that an offence of kidnapping and theft was registered against the latter. Accused demanded Rs 7 lakh from the victim to save her from arrest.
In October 2017, the police had registered an offence of extortion based on the complaint of the builder against Iqbal Kaskar and the gang members of Dawood.
A private detective has been arrested for allegedly extorting Rs 1 crore from a suspended IAS officer of Maharashtra, a senior police officer said here on Friday.
Dawood Ibrahim and his brother Anees Ibrahim have been shown as wanted accused in the case of extorting Rs 3 crore from a prominent builder.
New Delhi, Aug 4: Extradited underworld don Abu Salem today moved a Delhi court seeking stay on his trial in an extortion case after dismissal of India's appeal against the cancellation of his extradition by
New Delhi, Jun 26: Extradited gangster Abu Salem was today granted bail in a 2002 extortion case by a Delhi Court, which also praised his “above board” conduct in jail. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav
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