Pune police in Jalgaon for searches in extortion case

Pune: A team from the Kothrud police on Sunday carried out searches at the residences of some of the persons in Jalgaon who were booked in a case of extortion and threat registered by a lawyer on January 4, 2021. The complaint is against 28 people, including a sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MLA for beating up lawyer

Vijay Bhaskar Patil

, an office-bearer of Jalgaon-based educational institute in 2018 and extorting him. The

FIR

states that as part of the criminal conspiracy involving all the persons named in the FIR, Patil was threatened and told to resign from his position in the institute. Patil claimed that during a visit to Pune in 2018, he was forcibly taken to a flat in Sadashiv Peth area and threatened that he will be booked in false case. Patil also made allegations of forgery by some of the suspects in order to gain control of the Jalgaon-based institute and then suspects demanded extortion from him. A senior police officer said, “We conducted searches at the residences of a few suspects involved in the case. These suspects are also office bearers of the educational institute. We have recovered some documents. Police will study these documents.”