Mumbai: Kandivali Police File FIR Against 6 Political Workers For Extortion, Assaulting Road Construction Engineers

Mumbai: The Kandivali police in Saturday registered an FIR against six workers of a political party for allegedly demanding extortion from a road construction contractor. The accused have been identified as Lalsingh Rajpurohit, Ganesh Pawar, Pinto Jaiswal, Vikas Gupta, Nilesh Jaiswal, and Suresh Shah.

The incident took place on December 27 at 1.30 p.m., when the accused asked the contractor to meet them in their office and threatened him to first give them 5 lakh rupees before starting the work.

According to the FIR, the complainant Ashish Malha, 29 resides in Santacruz West works as civil engeer in BSCPL Infrastructure limited company. The company received a contract of cement road oij Irani Wadi 'R' ward.

As per the complainant on December 27 at 1.30 p.m. around 20 to 25 workers present in Irani Wadi on Raod no. 3, they beat up companies engineers, Vishwanath Chaurasia and Vineet Singh, with fists and sticks.

The complainant also alleged that in February 2024, Vikas Gupta and Nilesh Jaiswal, associates of Lalsingh Rajpurohit, extorted Rs 4 lakh per week from Mahipal Vyas and Trishit Tak, engineers at the sister company of BSCPL Infrastructure, by threatening to kill them. The case was filed under several relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.