Mumbai Police's senior inspector from Khar police station shunted

MUMBAI: Angry over the entire episode of fabrication of false application, blackmailing, demanding bribe/extortion or threatening to fix the estate agent in a orchestrated gang rape case by two policemen of Khar, Mumbai police commissioner Rakesh Maria on Thursday shunted the senior inspector of Khar police station.
Maria on Thursday transferred Vikas Sonawane, the senior inspector of Khar police station charging him for lack of supervision and failure to keep a tab on his subordinates.Sonawane has been moved to Local Arms (LA) division, a side branch. Maria refused to comment on the issue but sources said that he has again send a notice to all the 93 police stations and all the senior police officials including deputy commissioners and additional commissioners to put a stop on corruption. In the notice Maria has warned that any junior officer is arrested, the senior inspector will be held responsible and will be transfer to side branch and if a senior inspector is trapped in a bribery case, the dcp and additional commissioners will have to give explanation in writing.
Meanwhile the two cops-assistant police inspector Subhash Samant and Mahender Nerlekar of Khar police who were caught by the ACB in a bribery case have moved the Session court seeking anticipatory bail. Their matter is likely to come up for hearing on Friday. Police have have been suspended and have initiated a departmental inquiry.
On Tuesday Samant fled away by jumping along with cash of Rs 20,000 and few property documents from the first floor of his flat at Carter road in Bandra after learning that the ACB had cornered him.
The complaint was filed by an estate agent, who alleged that Samant and inspector Mahendra Narlekar of Khar police station had demanded Rs 50 lakh and the deed of a Bandra property to 'settle' the rape complaint. The duo told him that a 20-year-old woman filed an application saying the estate agent spiked her drink and gangraped her. Moreover, they demanded a sum of Rs 50 lakh and a prime property in Bandra, through three private persons. ACB have also written to Mumbai crime branch seeking help in arresting the two cops and three private men-Vicky Arora and his two associates Mahesh Kamble and Robin Gonsolves.
ACB said that inquiries revealed that it was Arora who approached the Khar police and cooked up the story. According to the ACB, the complainant had bought a commercial plot at Carter Road, Bandra, for Rs 25 lakh from Arora. Later when the plot went for redevelopment, its price quadrupled after which Arora started demanding the property back from the complainant, who refused to give up. Later Arora befriended him and threw a bash for him at a Dahanu farmhouse, where he called some call girls. "It was here that they shot a video of the complainant in a compromising position and started blackmailing him saying a girl has filed a gangrape complaint and than demanded a sum of Rs 50 lakhs and his property transfer in Arora's name" an investigator said.