RTI activist booked for extortion

Times of India: Nagpur: Monday, 01 December 2014.

Jaripatka police have registered a second offence of extortion against Sant Lahanu Nagar resident Ravikant Khobragade, who claims to be a social worker and RTI activist. Khobragade was recently arrested for extorting a doctor. It was his last day of police custody when cops received another complaint from a loco pilot and he was arrested again.

Khare town resident Sunil Sukhdeve filed a police complaint on Saturday. Sukhdeve was earlier staying at Ramai Nagar in Jaripatka and had a friendship with a contractor. As per Sukhdeve's complaint, Khobragade informed him in January that a person named Manwatkar had given a contract to some goon to kill him and his parents.

Khobragade assured to save him and demanded Rs 60,000 for it. Later, he continued demanding cash. Sukhdeve claimed that since then, he was frightened as a group of people would always be loitering around him and keep a watch on him. Till November, Khobragade allegedly extorted Rs 2.91 lakh from Sukhdeve.