A man allegedly entered the house of former Maharashtra minister DP Sawant here on Monday afternoon and placed a fake gun on his househelp's head and demanded Rs 50,000, a police official said.

The official said the man, identified as Beed-resident Sahil Mane, in his mid-30s, had come to the former minister's Shivajinagar area home here saying he wanted to speak on some sugarcane issue.