The Kandivli police have registered a case of extortion against Shiv Sena’s (Eknath Shinde group) “Vibhag Parmukh” Lalsingh Rajpurohit, alias Lalu, and six of his associates for allegedly assaulting and extorting money from engineers involved in road construction work under the jurisdictions of R/ Ward municipal corporation Kandivli.

According to police sources, a private company had been awarded a road construction contract. Engineers from the company were working on-site near Irani Wadi, where Lalu’s office is located. In February, Lalu had allegedly demanded and received R5 lakh to allow the construction work to proceed. Subsequently, Lalu and his associates began allegedly demanding additional money from the engineers, reportedly abusing and threatening them with warnings to halt the construction work if their demands were not met.