Informer, cop connive to extort Rs 22L from Mumbai-based businessman | Mumbai News – Times of India

MUMBAI: Police informer and a dismissed police constable allegedly connived with each other and under the pretext of helping a south Mumbai-based businessman’s brother arrested in a narcotic case get a clean chit, extorted him of Rs 22 lakh and a high-end mobile phone to be allegedly given to the officer of the Anti Narcotic Cell, stated the chargesheet.
The city crime branch last week filed a 300-page chargesheet in the case against the police informer Mohammed Naved Salim Pau and dismissed police constable Chandrakant Gaware.
The chargesheet stated that in March this year, businessman Hussain Batatewala lodged a complaint with the Dongri police alleging that Naved alias Pav, claiming to be a police informer, approached him saying that his elder brother Asif Rajkotwala has been named as suspect in a drug case registered by the Anti Narcotic Cell Bandra.
Naved told Hussain that he knows one officer Chandrakant Gaware who will help him get his brother’s name deleted from the case.
Police said that Naved along with Hussain met Gaware at a hotel where he showed his identity card from a distance and left. Naved told him that he will have to pay around Rs 35 lakh and two mobile phones to Gaware and when he said that he cannot afford so much money, he brought down the amount to Rs 22 lakh. Naved also scared Hussain saying that his brother will be jailed for at least 10 years in the NDPS case. Hussain then agreed to the proposal and made an advance payment of Rs 11 lakh to Naved. A few days later, Gaware met the complainant and showed him a two-page letter on Mumbai police letterhead where his brother’s name was removed. He handed over the letter to Batatewala and told him to give the remaining Rs 11 lakh to Naved. Batatawala paid the said amount and mobile phones worth Rs 2 lakh. Later Batatewala found that the letter given to him didn’t have any signature or stamp and hence he showed it to his lawyer who asked him to tell Gaware to give a certified copy, but they kept delaying the matter.
Batatawala lodged an offence at Dongri police station and the later the case was transferred to the anti-extortion cell. Police said during the course of investigations, it emerged that Gaware was dismissed from police service in 2018.