Pune: Shirur BJP leader booked on charge of extorting land owner

Pune: Shirur BJP leader booked on charge of extorting land owner

Pune: Shirur police have booked a Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader – having cordial relations with several other senior party leaders – in Shirur on charges of demanding extortion from a land owner.

Land owner Eknath Dagadu Ghaytadak has filed a complaint in this regard at the Shirur police station. The suspect has been identified as Vishal Nilkanth Ghaytadak, who is district president of BJP’s Student wing. Along with Vishal, one more suspect Bunty has been named in the complaint.

According to Shirur police, complainant Eknath Dagadu Ghaytdak owns land at ‘gat number 520’ along with four other brothers. The total land plot is sixteen and a half acres in size. Although the suspect Vishal and Bunty had nothing to do with the land, they were repeatedly demanding and threatening to give away two to four guntha land piece from this total plot.

Meanwhile, on August 11, while the complainant and his brother were on their way to Shirur from Karde on a two-wheeler, the suspects Vishal and Bunty came in their four-wheeler (MH12KY 5242) near Karde Ghat and stopped the two-wheeler. Vishal started abusing and harassing the complainant saying, “Why don't you give me the land I have asked for?”

This time, after the complainant said that he had nothing to do with the land plot, the suspect Vishal took out the hockey stick from his vehicle. Fearing assault, the complainant and his brother got on the bike and sped away. But the complainant threw a hockey stick towards them due to which the bike got damaged and the indicator broke.

The complainant immediately lodged a complaint at the Shirur police station. Shirur police have charged him under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code.Further investigation is being conducted by Sub-Inspector of Police Sunil Mote under the guidance of Shirur Police Station Inspector Praveen Khanapure.  According to the information received, the district president Vishal Ghaytadak has been booked in several cases earlier too. Suspect Vishal has cordial relations with several political leaders.

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