This hawker has property worth crores, runs extortion racket in Mumbai stations
Hindustan TimesThe authorities have slapped charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act on a hawker, his wife and six other associates accused of extortion, and attached many of his properties worth crores. The Government Railway Police said the accused, Santosh Kumar Singh alias Bablu Thakur, has properties, including two high-end cars and a motorcycle, 10 houses in Mumbai, two land plots at his native place in Uttar Pradesh, a five-acre agricultural land, 1.5 kg gold, insurance policies worth around ₹10 lakh and cash in about 30 bank accounts. The accused was running the extortion racket at Dadar, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Byculla and Kurla railway stations here as well as stations in neighbouring Thane city and Kalyan town, the official said. Thakur and his wife Rita Singh have multiple cases registered against them and many of them are still pending in court, Dadar Government Railway Police's senior inspector Dnyaneshwar Katkar said.
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