– SRPF personal arrested
The Pimpri Chinchwad Police on Friday evening arrested a State Reserve Police Force(SRPF) head constable who posed as a CBI official and demanded Rs 12Lacs from a firm dealing with Petroleum storage Design, Engineering & Service activities on NDA-Paschan Road.
The Head constable Named Vinod Thorwat(39 yrs) posing himself as an CBI officer was posted at Pune SRPF and was on leave at the time of committing the crime. Vinod was working for Mumbai CBI for 06 years and hence knew CBI officers very well.
He was in touch with Mumbai CBI officials.
One of the Partners of the firm, who lodged the complaint with the Bavdhan Police stated that On Oct 22, when he reached the office @9.30am, the accused approached him and informed him that he is an CBI Officer and there is a file of the firm with the CBI for investigation and if he needs to close the file, he shall pay an amount of Rs 15 Lacs and threatened to close down the company operations by allegedly involving the company in false allegations. He made the Partner of the firm speak to his real Senior CBI Officials who was in Mumbai and was connected by headphone and the same was repeated by the real CBI Official on Phone.
The accused person had asked to confirm by evening during the second and final meet as per him.
So the firm Partner along with his second partner met the accused on 22nd Oct Evening to Negotiate and Buy time. The Accused and the Senior CBI officials who was on headphone along with other real CBI officers at other end said that they have CBI Officers above them and they need to give money to them also and hence they cannot negotiate. Finally, the deal was negotiated for the amount of 12 lacs and time upto Thursday Evening. The CBI Officer had asked to pay the amount by Thursday or would take actions immediately to close the firm operations.
On 24th Oct Thursday Morning the firm Partner approached Bavdhan Police as there was a suspicion on the Accused person identity during their Talks with him.
The accused was then called to collect the amount from the Office location as directed by Bavdhan Police and the accused agreed to do so.
The Police team then along with firm Partner co-ordination nabbed the accused when he was to enter the firms building gate in the evening on 24th Oct and was taken into custody.
Through sources the name of one of the Mumbai CBI(real) officials is Sawant.
He is absconding from Mumbai.The Pune police is in search & went to Mumbai to arrest the CBI officials.
The arrested person was charged undersections 204 (personating public servant) , 308(3) extortion, 336(3)(4) forgery, 338 forgery of valuable security, 340 forged documents and using it as genuine, 3(5) common intention of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.
Vinod Thorwat was produced before the court on Friday and remanded to Police Custody till 28th Oct.
