The police inspector from Khar, who had gone missing after allegedly conniving with his subordinate and a builder to extort money from a real estate agent and grab his office space, has finally surrendered before the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB).
The accused, Mahendra Narlekar, went missing after his subordinate, Subhash Samant, had fled (from his home) when the ACB tried to nab him red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a real-estate agent. Narlekar, who was also part of the bribe plot, was supposed to report to work the same day, but never turned up. He, however, surrendered before the additional commissioner of ACB, Vishwas Nangre Patil, on Monday morning.
"Narlekar said he had surrendered because he knew he had no other choice. He, however, said he had no clue about the whereabouts of the other four accused in the case who are absconding," added Patil.
Narlekar was arrested and produced before a magistrate court, which remanded him in 14-day judicial custody.
Samant and Narlekar, attached to Khar police station, allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 50 lakh and Rs 2 lakh, respectively, from a real estate agent, an accused in a rape case. Vicky Arora, a builder, had connived with these two policemen to extort money and grab the agent's office space at Arora Towers, 10th Road, Khar (W).
When the real estate agent refused to vacate the office space, Arora and his accomplices befriended him and took him to a farm house in Dahanu where Arora filmed the agent getting intimate with one of the women he had brought to the place.
Armed with the clip, Arora colluded with Samant and Narlekar in trapping the agent. The cops summoned the agent claiming that the woman he had met at Dahanu had filed a rape case against him. They then demanded Rs 50 lakh and his office to settle the case. Following this, the agent approached the ACB which laid a trap.
Samant had summoned the real estate agent to his residence in the police quarters at Carter Road and told him to be there with the original documents of the office and Rs 10 lakh as the first installment (of the bribe). The ACB sent the complainant with a bundle of notes (Rs 20,000 and blank notes in between) on Monday evening.
After the transaction was carried out, an ACB official tried to enter Samant's house. He, however, managed to lock the door from inside. By the time ACB sleuths broke open the door, Samant had jumped through the AC window and escaped.
Samant, Arora and his accomplices, Mahesh Kamble and Robin Gonsalvis are still on the run.
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
)
)
)
)
)
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}
){kind=small}