Former Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey on Wednesday recorded his statement in connection with an extortion case registered against him in Thane, a Crime Branch officer said. The officer said that the former top cop spent three hours at the Crime Branch office in Wagle Estate.

Pandey and six others were booked at the Thane Nagar police station on August 26 this year based on a complaint filed by Mumbai-based businessman Sanjay Punamiya, who said that the accused ‘unlawfully’ reopened a 2016 FIR registered against him and alleged that he faced “significant troubles” from Pandey and others between May 2021 and June 2024.