MNS corporator among 4 held for kidnapping, assaulting man

Mumbai, August 14

Four people, including a corporator of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), were arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a man, police said.

MNS corporator Sanjay Turde had allegedly demanded Rs 50,000 from the contractor of a toilet being constructed in Krantinagar area of suburban Kurla, senior police inspector Dattatray Shinde said.

When the contractor did not pay the money, Turde’s two aides kidnapped a 33-year-old supervisor from the contractor’s office in Kurla on Monday, he said.

They took the supervisor to Turde’s office where the corporator and his three aides allegedly thrashed him, the official said.

The supervisor received injuries in the assault and was admitted to a hospital, he said.

Based on the victim’s complaint, the police arrested Turde, the Raj Thackeray-led party’s corporator in the city civic body, and his three aides on Tuesday morning.

They have been booked under IPC sections 364-A (kidnapping for ransom), 387, 385 (putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 143 (unlawful assembly), Shinde said.

The four accused were produced in a local court which remanded them in police custody till August 16, he added. PTI