Dombivli: Four booked for kidnapping RTO agent, extorting money

A case has been registered against four persons at Dombivli in Thane district of Maharashtra for allegedly kidnapping an RTO agent and extorting money from him police said on Friday reported the PTIThe accused were absconding said an official of Manpada police stationAccording to the PTI the accused allegedly gatecrashed into the 34yearold victims office on Haji Malang road in Kalyan on November 23 and asked him to go with them claiming that they were policemenHe was taken to Katani Naka near Koni village where they warned him not to operate as RTO agent and said four cases were registered against him at Cuff Parade police station in Mumbai the news agency reportedThe accused then allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh to close the cases and snatched Rs 1 lakh that he was carrying before dumping him on the road as per the PTIThe complainant approached police only on ThursdayThe First Information Report was registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS sections 3082 extortion 1402 kidnapping or abducting for ransom and 204 personating a public servantProbe is underway the police official said without explaining the cause of delay in filing the complaint on the victims partNine persons booked for cheating job aspirants of Rs 744 lakhMeanwhile in an another incident as many as nine persons including four members of a family were booked in Kalyan in Thane district for allegedly cheating job aspirants of Rs 7440 lakh a police official said on Friday reported the PTIThe other five accused are believed to be railway personnel among them a medical officer the MFC police station official saidAs per the complainant Ballal along with his wife and two children took money from him between January and May this year but the promised job never materialised Ballal also got the complainant to meet several persons who the former claimed were railway officials helping to expedite the process the official said according to the PTIHe even provided the complainant a fake appointment letter and showed him fabricated emails We believe the accused have taken Rs 744 lakh from the complainant and other job seekers in Roha in Raigad and other places We are probing if those the complainant met are indeed railway officials or imposters the official saidA case of cheating forgery and other offences has been registered but no arrest has been made the official informedwith PTI inputs