Goa Residents Booked For Allegedly Demanding ₹6 Crore Extortion From HoABL Over Housing Project
The N M Joshi Marg police have booked two Goa residents for allegedly demanding 6 crore in extortion and forcibly taking 41 lakh from The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL) in connection with its housing project in Goa. The real estate firm has its head office in Mumbai, and hence a case has been registered here. Siddhesh Jana Tari and Pritesh Salgaonkar, along with their associates, have been…
Police in Goa have arrested two individuals, Siddhesh Jana Tari and Pritesh Salgaonkar, for allegedly demanding a sum of ₹6 crores in extortion from The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HoABL) over a housing project. This case has been registered in Mumbai due to the real estate firm's headquarters being located there. The arrest was made on the basis of a complaint lodged by Bhushan Patil, a 39-year-old liaisoning agent for HoABL.
The complaint was filed after Tari and Salgaonkar allegedly visited the project site and began abusing Patil and his colleagues. The duo accused HoABL of treating local residents unfairly and threatened that they would not allow the completion of the project. According to the FIR, Tari demanded ₹3 crores each from Salgaonkar, and the duo allegedly demanded further payments, claiming it was necessary to distribute the money among protesters.
Despite HoABL maintaining that all activities were legal, the firm initially refused to pay and later agreed to pay ₹10 lakhs each to the duo. Subsequently, the company paid a total of ₹41 lakhs to Tari and ₹7 lakhs to Salgaonkar.
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