Two city-based builders helped the Mumbai police lay traps and nab three accused, who harassed and blackmailed the developers to stall their projects by threatening to complain to the investigating agencies, in two separate cases within a week. The accused had demanded Rs 75 lakh and Rs 7 crore from the builders, both of whom have projects in the eastern suburbs. 

In one of the cases, a developer from Ghatkopar on April 11 received a call from a person who introduced himself as Ganesh Jadhav, vice-president of Maharashtra Anti Corruption Bureau, and claimed that he had documents on misappropriation of funds by the developer while sanctioning home loans for his project in Bhandup.