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Mumbai Crime: 6 held for posing as govt officers, extorting Rs 1.5 lakh from jewellery workshop owner
Updated On: 26 March, 2021 08:38 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
They told the victim that his workshop was being run illegally, that the acid being stored was unauthorised, child labour had been employed against the law and nobody was wearing masks
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Six people were arrested for pretending to be government officers and extorting Rs 1.5 lakh from owner of an imitation jewellery workshop in Malad (East) on Tuesday.
Four of the accused are residents of the Virar-Nala Sopara belt. They were identified as Mahendra Jadhav, 42, Nikhil Jadhav, 34, Swapnil Patil, 34, Tushar Takalkar, 30, Jeevansingh Ravat, 31 and Bhushan Melekar, 32, stated a report in The Times of India.
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