Maharashtra: Man feared drowned after being thrown into Thane creek

The search operations are underway. Pic/RDMC

A man has been feared drowned after he was allegedly thrown into a creek in Maharashtra's Thane city by some persons. He was yet to be traced, officials said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, a local fire station received an alert at 10.55 pm on Wednesday that some persons threw a man into the creek from a pipeline in Rabodi area, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.

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Local firemen, disaster management cell personnel and a rescue team rushed to the spot and carried out a search for about an hour before the operation was stopped due to darkness, he said, as per the PTI.

The search operation resumed with the help of a boat at around 7.30 am on Thursday.

The man could not be found after four hours and the search operation was then called off, he said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident, the police from Maharashtra's Thane city have arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly threatening his maternal uncle and trying to extort Rs 1 crore from him, an official said on Thursday, as per the PTI.

The official said that complainant Subhash Ramchandra Tupe's wife had lent Rs 61 lakh to accused Mangesh Arun Thorat, who hails from Ahmednagar, for some business. She had also invested Rs 1.25 crore in another venture through a man from Uttar Pradesh after signing an agreement.

When the complainant's wife did not get any money in return from the UP man, she handed over a copy of the agreement to Thorat and sought his help in recovering the funds.

After learning that his uncle, a retired state government engineer, had a lot of money, Throat allegedly began demanding Rs 1 crore from him and also tried to avoid repaying the Rs 61 lakh that he had borrowed, the official said, according to the PTI.

Thorat even threatened to harm his uncle and aunt and defame them by filing a complaint against them with the Anti-Corruption Bureau, said senior inspector Shekar Bagde from the anti-extortion cell of Thane police, citing the complaint.

Acting on a complaint by Tupe, the police laid a trap and arrested Thorat at a toll booth in Navi Mumbai as he accepted Rs 1 crore from his 'mama' on Wednesday, he said.

(with PTI inputs)