Within 48 hours of a 30-year-old real estate agent from Mahim filing a police complaint in a kidnapping and Rs 13 lakh extortion case, the local police arrested seven people and recovered all the cash and gold that they had taken from him. According to preliminary information, the accused were facing financial crisis and just to make some quick money, they hatched the plan. The accused will be produced in court today.

On July 23, three unknown men posing as Crime Branch officers, stopped victim Harshal Manjarekar's car at Raheja junction. They threatened the Manjarekar and forcibly took R2lakh cash that was kept in the car. Also, one of them drove the car to Panvel-Pen road and asked him to call his driver to get more cash from home. Thereafter, his driver got Rs 10 lakh cash.