A 32-year-old "RTI activist" was
arrested for allegedly trying to extort Rs 3 lakh from a real estate developer in the western suburb of Bandra here, police said on Tuesday.
The Nirmal Nagar police on Sunday nabbed Sandesh Kadam, while a manhunt has been launched for another activist Mahendra Pawar, an official said.
The accused had demanded Rs 3 lakh from Kunal Sarmalkar in exchange of not lodging a complaint against his ongoing project in Amrutnagar locality of Bandra (east), he said.
The duo frequently lodged queries and complaints at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other government organisations, he added.
Sarmalkar had filed a police complaint on December 27 stating that the accused had been harassing him since October and he had already paid them Rs 50,000.
Following an FIR, Kadam was arrested under sections 384 (extortion) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, the official added.
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