Pharmacy owner held for extortion

Pune: The crime branch have arrested drug store owner Jayesh Kasat for demanding Rs75 lakh as extortion from a Sahakarnagar man.

A case against Narayan Peth resident Kasat has been registered with the Vishrambaug police on the basis of a complaint by Hemant Tukaram Adsul (55). Adsul’s brother had threatened a doctor (69), who runs a nursing home, to file a case of molestation and took Rs75 lakh from him. The Vishrambaug police had registered a case against Adsul’s brother. After being approached by the doctor, Kasat called Adsul to his shop on January 2 and demanded the money back .

The complaint stated that Kasat made Adsul pay Rs5 lakh as the first part of the extortion.