Four extort 70k from trucker transporting buffaloes; booked
Pune: The
Hinjewadi police
on Monday filed a case against three men and a woman on the charge of extorting Rs70,000 from a truck driver transporting buffaloes to Mumbai near Wakad bridge on April 8.
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The four suspects beat up the driver and threatened to take legal action against him. They forcibly took money from him. The driver, who hails from Govandi in Mumbai, approached the police on Monday and lodged a complaint.
Senior police inspector Kanhaiya Thorat of the Hinjewadi police said the complainant and three more drivers were transporting buffaloes to Mumbai in four trucks on April 8. "The suspects chased them in a car and blocked their way near the Wakad bridge.
They threatened the complainant and the three other drivers and asked if they had the permit to transport the animals," Thorat said.
He said they beat up the complainant and threatened to seize all four vehicles and the animals in them. To avoid police, they forced the driver to transfer Rs70,000 online and drove away. The complainant and three others then went to Mumbai along with the animals before approaching the police, the officer said.
"We ascertained the identity of two men and a woman. We have booked them on the charge of extortion. We would soon arrest them," Thorat said.
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