Navi Mumbai: Rabale police on Monday arrested a man who allegedly extorted a Navi Mumbai co-opted corporator on behalf of a woman who had filed a rape complaint against him last month. The corporator, Sahil Devidas Chougule from Shiv Sena, filed a complaint that the woman had lodged a fake rape case against him, extorted Rs 50,000 from him through the middleman, Kuldeep Kumar Devmane (29), to withdraw it, and later demanded Rs 30 lakh more. Devmane was sent to police custody till July 3. Assistant police inspector Avinash Palde said while the woman was named in the FIR, she was not arrested as her involvement in the extortion demand was being ascertained. “Devmane and the woman’s call data records will be obtained to determine her involvement.”
