Mumbai Police Book 2 Goa Residents in ₹41 Lakh Real Estate Extortion Case

The Mumbai police have filed an extortion complaint against two Goa residents and their accomplices, alleging that they seized Rs 41 lakh and demanded Rs 6 crore from a real estate company’s agent in order to continue work on an ongoing project in the coastal state, an official said on Sunday.

The NM Joshi Marg police submitted a FIR on August 27 in response to a complaint from a liaison officer with ‘The House of Abhinandan Lodha’, who claimed that the accused threatened to halt building at the project site until payment was made, according to the official.

According to police, the accused, Siddhesh Jana Tari, Pritesh Salgaonkar, and their associates, allegedly sought Rs 6 crore from the complainant to allow the company’s Goa project to go without interruption. Tari reportedly accepted Rs 34 lakh, while Salgaonkar accepted Rs 7 lakh from the complainant in numerous instalments over the last five months, totaling Rs 41 lakh, they claimed.

However, the accused allegedly wanted Rs 10 lakh recently, and the complainant, sick up with the incessant threats and demands, approached the NM Joshi Marg police station, which has jurisdiction over the company’s office, according to the official. The police have filed a case under relevant parts of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including provisions for extortion and criminal intimidation, and an investigation is continuing.