During one of their initial meetings, Karan Raje Bandal, who claims to be the president of Allied Workers' Union, had tried to extort R50 lakh from the president of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE), Birendra Nath Tiwari, but he was refused the money. Instead, Tiwari had said that he would help him with contacts so that he could invest money in making a TV serial.

However, things took an ugly turn on May 10 when Bandal along with a group of 14 people entered Tiwari's office and brutally assaulted him for not paying the money. They even threatened to make a recorded call, in which Tiwari allegedly speaks ill about a political heavyweight, viral. After Tiwari filed a complaint in the matter, the Amboli police registered a case and arrested five people.