Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar cops suspended after arrest!

VASAI: Constables Rajesh Mahajan and Shyam Shinde have been suspended by the MBVV commissionerate after they were arrested by the Achole cops on Wednesday on the charges of abetment of suicide and criminal intimidation.

They have been accused to driving a developer to suicide after threatening him to give-up his building project which was financed by them. They had given around 33 lakhs to the deceased Jaiprakash Chauhan who committed suicide blaming these two cops. Chauhan was so stressed with the harassment of these two cops that, as per his family, he was staying at a different flat for the last week or so. Another accused Lala Lajpat who is a broker has also been arrested in this case. For a little more than a decade Mahajan and Shinde were seen deputed at different police stations in Vasai Virar and could never be transferred. They got the advantage of a creation of new Palghar district which was carved from Thane district in 2014 and a couple of years ago MBVV commissionerate also came into existence.

Currently Mahajan, 40, was deputed at EOW and Shinde was deputed at Virar police station. We have immediately suspended both these constables and have been prompt in taking actions without any delays, said a senior police officer.