Dhanbad Deputy mayor sent to jail on extortion charge

After rejecting their bail petitions, a local court today remanded the Deputy Mayor of Dhanbad Municipal orporation Aklavya Singh and his associate to 14 days judicial custody on extortion and other charges.
The other charges include intimidation and attempt to abduct an executive engineer of the civic body.
Singh and his associate Anand Raj, who were on the run since July 3 after an FIR was lodged against them, had surrendered in the court of CJM Rajiv Ranjan at around 12.30 PM today.
While the two applied for bail, the complainant Arun Kumar Singh, an executive engineer of DMC, filed a compromise petition in the court simultaneously.

The CJM rejected both the petitions saying that since the statement was recorded under section 164 CrPC and charges were serious, bail could not be granted.
The DMC executive engineer Arun Kumar Singh had on July 3 last filed an FIR in Bank More police station of Dhanbad stating that the Deputy Mayor had taken him in his car from the civic body office at gun point on July 1 demanding Rs 2 lakh.

The Deputy Mayor also threatened him with dire consequences if he failed to pay, Singh had mentioned in the FIR.
Singh had taken him to a lonely place showing the spot where he would be dumped if he did not pay up. After one hour, Anand Raj dropped him at his office, the FIR stated.

The police charged him with intimidating the engineer, demanding extortion, preventing a government employee from discharging duty and attempt of abduction.
Since then the two had been absconding.
The police had raided the Deputy Mayor'sn house in Dhanbad and other possible places in Kolkata, Delhi, Balia (Uttar Pradesh).
The police had also sought a court order on property attachment to mount pressure on the Deputy Mayor.