Thane, Sept. 28 -- Three people, including a journalist, were arrested on Monday in an extortion case, police said.
DCP Bhiwandi, Rajkumar Shinde said the prime accused in the case Khalid Guddu, AIMIM party president is already in the custody since last week. He was picked up while accepting extortion money from a builder at Bhiwandi, the police said.
A builder who had filed a complaint stated that, the alleged accused had been extorting money from him since 2017 till February of this year.
When the complainant, along with his partner, was carrying out construction work on behalf of his construction firm in Nagaon the accused persons filed a writ petition against the developer in the Bombay High court and demanded Rs 29,00,000 from him a...