Mumbai: Assistant Police Inspector Naushad Pathan has filed a complaint against a woman and three of her relatives for allegedly blackmailing him and extorting money. The woman reportedly threatened to circulate his semi-nude photographs if he did not pay her Rs 10 lakh.
Over the years, Pathan paid Rs 2.7 lakh to the accused. The Samta Nagar Police registered an FIR on February 18. Pathan was previously posted with the Mumbai Police and is currently attached to the Nanded Police.
According to the FIR, Pathan, who resides in Latur, was attached to the Mumbai Police from 2013 until 2021. In 2021, he was promoted to Assistant Police Inspector and transferred to Nanded. In 2019, he was posted at the Samta Nagar Police Station in Kandivali East.
The officer claimed that the woman Kanchan Desai first contacted him under the pretext of sending Diwali wishes, despite not knowing him personally. She later visited him at the police station, requesting that he advise her brother to stay away from drugs. By 2020, the two were regularly speaking on the phone.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pathan contracted the virus. After his recovery, the woman met him at a beat chowki and confessed that she had feelings for him. The woman revealed that she was separated from her husband and was pregnant at the time. Pathan informed her that he was married and had a daughter.
The extortion allegedly began in 2021 when the woman and her brother demanded Rs 10 lakh from Pathan, threatening to implicate him in a rape case if he refused. They also threatened to expose his alleged affair to his wife. Out of fear, Pathan paid them money over time.
In 2023, the woman and her relatives travelled to Nanded Railway Station and called Pathan. He drove them to Udgir and pleaded with them not to return. In April 2023, Pathan was injured in a road accident. Despite this, the woman allegedly continued to harass him.
She even registered his name as her husband in government documents. Later, the woman went missing for fifteen days, and her family held Pathan responsible for her disappearance. She eventually began therapy for depression.
Until December 2023, the woman reportedly continued demanding money under various pretexts and he gave Rs 2.70 lakhs to her. In April 2024, Pathan filed a complaint against the woman, her mother, sister, and brother at the Samta Nagar Police Station.
The police registered the case under Sections 34 (common intention), 384 (extortion), and 385 (putting a person in fear of injury to commit extortion) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.
