A 39-year-old man was arrested by RCF police for allegedly extorting Rs 50,000 from the family of a woman arrested in a murder case. The accused, identified as Santosh Sathe is affiliated to a local political party and demanded Rs 50,000 from the woman’s family saying that he knows the investigating officer in the case and can help by talking to him, to spare the woman from being tortured while in police custody, reported Indian Express.

According to the police, the woman, Reshma Oval was arrested by the crime branch along with her brother-in-law Sumit Patankar on December 8, for allegedly killing her brother and disposing off his body in the mangroves in Chembur.