Extortion accused Shailesh Bhatt arrested in Delhi, brought to city

Surat: Delhi police on Wednesday nabbed Shailesh Bhatt, one of the key accused in a case of threatening a builder and attempting to encroach property in Surat, from the national capital’s Tilak Nagar area based on information sent by Sarthana police station in the city.
Bhatt, one of the main accused in the multi-crore cryptocurrency extortion case, was on the run ever since a complaint was lodged against him on Monday.
Following specific information, Bhatt was nabbed by a team of Delhi police after a team of Surat’s detection of crime branch (DCB), keeping watch on Bhatt’s movement, alerted them with exact location details.
“Bhatt got caught while he was going to some other place from Tilak Nagar. At present we cannot reveal more details till we interrogate him and extract more information,” said a crime branch official.
After being nabbed, Delhi police sent Bhatt to Tihar Jail in judicial custody. City police team reached Delhi on Thursday and have approached a local court to get his custody. “We got Bhatt’s custody and he will be brought to the city on transit remand,” said the officer.
Total six teams of crime branch are working on the case in which Raju Desai, a city-based builder, has alleged that Bhatt, with the help of Aniruddhsinh Jadeja of Ribda in Rajkot, tried to encroach his residential scheme to recover money.
In his complaint Desai alleged that he had already paid Bhatt Rs 6 crore against Rs 4 crore he had borrowed but the latter continued his threats to recover more money.
DCB sleuths are also hunting for Jadeja who absconded following detection of his involvement in a gambling racket around 10 days ago.
Altogether 11 people were booked in the case of which four were arrested by Sarthana police on Sunday from Desai’s residential project. Other accused are yet to get arrested.