{
  "id": 12697321,
  "title": "Mumbai Crime Branch Probes Alleged ₹1.3 Crore Extortion Demand Linked To Prabhadevi Redevelopment Project",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/mumbai-crime-branch-probes-alleged-1-3-crore-extortion-demand-linked",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-07T18:41:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-crime-branch-probes-alleged-13-crore-extortion-demand-linked-to-prabhadevi-redevelopment-project"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Mumbai Crime Branch is investigating allegations of extortion in connection with the redevelopment of a property in Prabhadevi. Two men, Raghavendra Kolgi and Santosh Gupta, are accused of demanding ₹1.3 crore from Tijarat Ali Jumman Khan, a legal manager at Rational Arts of Press Pvt. Ltd., a real estate and construction company. Khan has been employed by the company for 20 years. The redevelopment project saw work halted after Kolgi filed a complaint with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in March 2026, alleging irregularities in the documents submitted for the change of user/change of zone. Following the halt, Kolgi allegedly approached the project site, seeking contact to restart the work. He demanded an extortion of ₹2 crore, claiming he needed funds to contest an upcoming election and threatened to cancel redevelopment permissions and disrupt the project. Khan alleged that Gupta later reduced his demand to ₹30 lakh, claiming the company's redevelopment permissions were based on bogus documents.",
  "summary": "Mumbai: The Anti-Extortion Cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch is probing an alleged extortion case in which two men allegedly demanded a total of ₹1.3 crore from a legal manager of a private company in connection with the redevelopment of a property at Prabhadevi. Legal Manager Files Complaint According to the FIR, the complaint filed at Dadar Police Station, the complainant, Tijarat Ali Jumman…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}