A Mumbai crime branch team probing angadia (traditional couriers) extortion case has arrested assistant sales tax commissioner Ashutosh Mishra, brother-in-law of suspended IPS officer Saurabh Tripathi, from Basti in Uttar Pradesh, an official said.
A Mumbai Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of suspended Mumbai Police DCP Saurabh Tripathi who is an accused in the Angadiya extortion case.
According to the police, the accused identified as Pappu Kumar Pyarelal Gaud, 27 who is a domestic help at Tripathi's home in Lucknow where his parents live, was arrested for allegedly receiving money sent from hawala channels which the crime branch suspects are proceeds of crime. Around ₹1.5 lakh were recovered from him.
Mumbai Police's Crime Branch has arrested a person from Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow for allegedly handling hawala money of DCP Saurabh Tripathi, an accused in the Angadia extortion case.