Mumbai: 37-Year-Old Driver's Unpaid Salary Grudge Sparks ₹1-Crore Fake IT Raid; 2 Serving Officials Held
A dispute over unpaid salary escalated into an elaborate Rs 1-crore extortion plot in Mumbai, with a dismissed driver joining hands with two serving Income Tax Department officials and seven others to target his former employer. According to police, the accused driver, identified as 37-year-old Santosh Uday Khopatkar, had been dismissed by businessman Rajkumar Kandasami, 49, without receiving six…
A 37-year-old former driver named Santosh Uday Khopatkar orchestrated a fraudulent ₹1-crore fake income tax raid against his former employer, businessman Rajkumar Kandasami. Khopatkar was dismissed from Kandasami's company without receiving six months' salary, a fact that fueled his resentment. Using his insider knowledge, he conspired with two serving Income Tax officials and five others to impersonate government agents and carry out the extortion plot.
The group targeted Kandasami's office, posing as Income Tax Department and Crime Branch officials, and seized the business owner's mobile phones while threatening further action from the Income Tax Department. Two Income Tax officials, Suresh Mahavirprasad Mishra and Sunil Manohar Gore, were arrested in connection with the scheme. The investigation is ongoing.
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