Rajkot: A man was booked on Sunday night for allegedly threatening the wife of Jayesh Ranpariya, a dreaded extortionist and land mafia, in Jamnagar.
Police said the accused, Dharmin Madam, allegedly threatened to kill Dhruti Ranpariya (36) on the night of October 27.
“Dhruti said Madam accused her of writing against him in her newspaper, of which she is the editor and publisher, and threatened to kill her if she continued to defame him,” said R K Gosai, sub-inspector with Jamnagar A division police station.
Gosai said that Madam had allegedly visited the house of Dhruti on the fifth floor of Dhaneshwer Residency on Digvijay Plot in Jamnagar.
In her complaint, Dhruti further alleged that Madam also threatened to kill her father-in-law Mulji Ranpariya.
“While Madam was hurling abuses, Dhruti's 11-year-old daughter recorded the incident on her cellphone, which Dhruti shared with us as an evidence,” said Gosai.
Ranpariya, who faces several criminal cases, mostly land grabbing and extortion, is suspected to have fled to Dubai before his name figured in advocate Kirit Joshi murder case. Joshi was fighting several cases against Ranpariya. He was stabbed to death on April 28, 2018, allegedly on the instructions of Ranpariya.
Earlier on Sunday, Ranpariya’s advocate Vasant Manseta (55) was arrested after being booked under the Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organized Crime (GujCTOC) Act.
Manseta was produced before a GujCTOC court in Rajkot with a plea of 12 days police custody on Monday. The court, however, sent him to four days remand.
Manseta used to handle legal affairs of Ranpariya. Ranpariya would take advice from Manseta on land deals, filing objection applications in court on land deal advertisements published in newspapers, filing civil suits in court pertaining to land deals and filing court complaints.