RTI activist nabbed in extortion case

Surat: The crime branch has nabbed an RTI activist for alleged extortion over a construction in Udhna area of Surat.

The accused RTI activist Shakil Ahmed Jakariya Shaikh (age: 52) allegedly demanded money after filing RTI and threatened to destroy a construction being built in Satya Sainath society near Aman nagar in Udhna. The construction was undertaken in two plots by a merchant of paper boxes and craft papers named Mohammed Siraj Allaudin Malik living in Satya Sainath society in Udhna.

According to police, two persons had met him in August and introduced themselves as persons of Shakil Ahmed Jakariya Shaikh. They demanded ransom of Rs 3 lakh. The accused, Shakil Ahmed had filed an application with pictures of the construction in Limbayat zone in September. He had threatened the merchant by calling him to his office in Nanpura for resolution of the application. The merchant had filed a complaint against the accused RTI activist in the crime branch. The sub-inspector PM Vala nabbed the accused RTI activist. DeshGujarat