Money demanded for withdrawal of complaint

Mumbai, 04 July (HS): The crime branch of Mumbai

Police caught rend handed four RTI (Right To Information) activist for

demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 15 lakh to withdraw complaint related to

alleged substandard work of gutter and dranage.

The four were arrested on Mumbai’s Dombiwali MIDC area.

Messers Ajwani Metcom Joint Venture is the contractor.

The four RTI activists had lodged a complaint against the company with MIDC

Executive Engineer. After lodging the complaint they contacted the company’s

representative and demanded Rs 15 lakh to withdraw the complaint.

The company’s supervisor informed the police about the

blackmailing. Police registered an

offence and arrested the four activists and presented them in Kalyan Court. The

court remanded them to police custody for five days.

The RTI activists were have been named as Dipesh

Lokhande, Rahul Mukadam, Vishal Jankar and Naresh Suryavanshi.

Police are investigation whether the accused had

earlier extracted money.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar