Armed thugs beat up vada pav vendor who had filed extortion complaint and then assault two constables who had come to arrest them In a deadly game of cat and mouse, three inebriated thugs assaulted a vada pav vendor for refusing to bow down to their extortion demands, and then went on the rampage attacking policemen who came to arrest them. <table style="width: 66px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="66" align="right" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2011/jan/extortion.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr> <tr> <td> Sanjay Nirale and his younger brother Shankar were assaulted for standing up to extortionists</td></tr></tbody></table>According to the police, three thugs, Selva, Murgesh and Raghav went to a vada-pav stall around 4 pm to extort Rs 500 from the owner's brother, Shankar Nirale (25). When he refused to pay them, they assaulted him and fled. Nirale approached the Mankhurd police station to register a complaint and returned to the stall thereafter. When the thugs discovered that Nirale had filed a complaint with the police, they returned, armed with choppers and bamboo sticks and this time, however, assaulted Nirale and his elder brother Sanjay. Local residents alerted the police who rushed to the spot at around 9 pm to arrest the trio. The two-hour long drama that followed in Mankhurd last night, had bystanders aghast as the thugs attacked the cops, opening up a gash in one policeman's arm with a beer bottle and then lobbing a sizeable stone on the head of another before making good their escape. The thugs escaped twice through the narrow bylanes in the area only to reappear through another lane to challenge the policemen present. Two constables, K Bhise and P Salunkhe, who were injured in the melee, were rushed to Shatabdi hospital for medical treatment. "The thugs refused to surrender and kept threatening the policemen," said Nirale, who sustained head injuries. "When the policemen tried to catch them, they assaulted them and fled the spot," he added. "We are trying to gather details about the accused and will arrest them soon," said Pascal D'Souza, senior police inspector, Mankhurd police station. Preliminary investigations revealed that Selva and Murgesh are residents of Tamil Nadu and had come to Mumbai a week ago.

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