PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Sunday arrested a 46-year-old farmer and his two sons on the charge of demanding extortion of Rs1 lakh from a builder. The builder, in his complaint, stated that the trio were harassing him for the past five months and extorted Rs75,000 from two of his contractors.
Sunil Bhadane, sub-inspector of the Dighi police, said, “The suspects, Satyawan Tapkir and his sons Akash (25) and Sagar (23) have been remanded to police custody for three days.”
“The trio was compelling him to purchase all the required material from them. When the complainant did not pay heed to them, the suspects threatened his contractors and took Rs 75,000 from them,” Bhadane said. He said the suspects then demanded Rs1 lakh from the complainant and threatened to ransack his vehicles.
