Mumbai: The Malad Police arrested a man for blackmailing small suburban traders and extorting money from them. The accused has been identified as Sanjay Yadav. Police said he lives in the Prem Nagar slum at Goregaon.The FIR was lodged on the basis of statements given by small traders from the western suburbs. The traders said that Yadav would post online complaints on X (formerly Twitter) against their businesses to blackmail them. After the FIR was registered, the police tracked down Yadav and arrested him under provisions of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita.“We want to make an appeal that anyone else who may have been similarly harassed or blackmailed by the accused should approach the Malad Police station and lodge a complaint with us,” said senior inspector Dushyant Chavan, Malad police.
