Palghar, Mar 22: Police have registered a case against more than 15 persons for allegedly obstructing a construction work and demanding money from a sub-contractor in Maharashtra’a Palghar district, officials said on Sunday.
According to the sub-contractor’s complaint, the accused allegedly threatened labourers and forced them to flee the site where he was overseeing the construction of a protective wall for a company at Musarne in the Wada area on Friday.
Later that evening, the accused allegedly arrived in luxury cars, used an earth-excavating machine to dig a hole blocking the company’s access road, and demanded a monthly payment of Rs 5 lakh to allow the work to continue.
Based on the complaint, the police on Saturday registered a case against five identified and more than 10 unidentified persons under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections for extortion, unlawful assembly, criminal intimidation and intentional insult, an official from Wada police station said.
