Extortionist and aides slapped with MCOCA

Nagpur: City police have invoked stringent Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) against Roshan Sheikh and his gang members on Wednesday in an offence in which they had targeted a former Bollywood production manager for extorting Rs20 lakh.
The victim Vaibhav Dani and his son were allegedly kidnapped from Sadar by the gang and later let off after extorting Rs2.80 lakh from him.
Sources said it was a long-drawn property dispute between Dani and one of the accused which led to the kidnapping and extortion. Legal battle is gong on for several years for the property in question.
The case was being probed by the crime branch which later had registered an offence at Sadar police station.
After Dani’s case, two more offences were registered against Roshan Sheikh and others at Ambazari police station following complaints by one radio jockey and one Ashutosh Mundhada.
Sheikh and Mundhada were co-accused in a case of arson in 2018 after they were accused of setting an under-construction hotel on fire. Police said Sheikh has around nine offences against him.
Last week, crime branch had recovered fixed deposits receipts worth around Rs1.63 crore during a search at his residence. A few videos of Sheikh brandishing fire arms and thrashing a man had also surfaced on the social media.
Apart from Sheikh, his accomplices Irfan Khan, Saleem Qazi and Sohel Khan too have been booked under MCOCA and are behind bars now. Ankit Pali and Ashutosh Singh have received ad interim bail in the case.