Thanks to the efforts of the Anti-Extortion Cell (AEC) of Mumbai Crime Branch, and the arrests of various gangsters in the past eight years, threat calls made by the underworld to extort money from Mumbai builders, businessmen, celebrities, and politicians, have reduced to just one in 2022. In the year 2017 there were 97 such calls.

In the past eight years, the city has received 390 threat calls from the underworld. Operations against gangsters like Ejaz Lakdawala, Suresh Pujari, Prasad Pujari, and Ravi Pujari, who have been behind almost 80 per cent of the extortion calls in the city, were accelerated during the tenure of joint commissioner Sanjay Saxena in 2016. After Saxena`s tenure, action against these gangsters was intensified during the tenure of  IPS officer Santosh Rastogi, and extortion calls fell by almost 90 per cent.