Pooja Jadhav

Pimpri

Kadri

Dilip Kulkarni

Anita Jadhav

A woman who had gone to Bhosari police station to register a rape complaint got caught in her own web of lies and now she and her accomplices have been jailed.(25), a resident ofwho claims to be an actor on the TV show Crime Patrol, was arrested for blackmailing and dacoity on July 8.On July 8, Jadhav and her accomplices, Ravindra Motiram Shrisaam (45) a resident of Hadapsar, Maya Bhaskar Sawant (50) from Pimpri and Sonal Dattatray Pawar (24), also from Pimpri were at the police station to register a complaint against Niyamatfor raping Jadhav. During the interrogation, the cops grew suspicious of Jadhav’s behaviour and this is when the investigation took a turn. Jadhav initially did not want to file an FIR, but only a complaint to be registered and for Kadri to be warned. But, senior police inspector of Bhosari police station,, told them that an FIR had to be registered.While trying to file the FIR, the cops started questioning Jadhav, asking her why she did not scream or raise an alarm if the rape took place in a lodge as she was claiming. Jadhav had no answer for this. Meanwhile, the cops were also questioning Kadri who Jadhav had got along with her to the police station.With his version, things began to fall into place.Jadhav and her accomplices had approached Kadri, thinking he was a builder, and called him to a lodge. Here, she forced herself on him and when he left the lodge, the rest of her team, who were waiting outside, caught hold of him. They started threatening him and yelling at him for raping Jadhav. They then pushed him into a car and took him to an isolated spot.Here, they demanded that he pay them Rs 5 lakh else they would file a police complaint. However, while talking to him, they realised that they had got the wrong guy and that he was not a builder, but a contractor. After a lot of negotiation, they demanded that he pay them Rs 25,000. When he did not agree and told them that he had no money, they snatched Rs 6,000 which was all he had with him and then took him to the police station.Kulkarni said, “During our investigation, we found out that Jadhav and her accomplices have been operating as a group since 2012. When she came to register a complaint, she claimed to be working as an actress in Crime Patrol and her accomplices said they were social workers who had come to support her. We are still running checks on her background. We are also going through all their call records to check how many more people could be involved with them and how many they have duped.” Two other members of the group,and Maya Ahol, are currently on the run. After Jadhav, Shrisaam, Sawant and Pawar were arrested they were produced in court and were remanded in two days of police custody, following which they were sent to jail on Monday. They have all been booked under Section 395 of the Indian Penal Code for dacoity.█ When Jadhav came to register a complaint, she claimed to be working as an actress in Crime Patrol and her accomplices said they were social workers who had come to support her