Times of
India: Gurgaon: Sunday, September 08, 2019.
A
city resident has accused an RTI activist of threatening him to sell a piece of
land and trying to extort Rs 5 lakh from him on the pretext of saving him from
a government inquiry for allegedly acquiring more than one HSVP plot under a
quota.
In
a statement to police, the resident has claimed that S K Sharma had collected
information about the plot owned by him through an RTI query. Sharma had then
approached the complainant’s house and started enquiring about him, but he was
away at work and could not meet him.
The
man later approached Sharma in his house in May this year. “When I met him, he
told me I had taken more than one government plot under the quota and he could
help me sell it off if I paid him Rs 5 lakh,” said the complainant. He added
that the accused also told him that if he didn’t agree to the proposal, he
would have to make rounds of courts and his wife could lose her job. Sharma had
allegedly been calling and harassing the complainant and his family ever since
and forcing them to sell the land. “He also told us he knew senior officers in
the police and judiciary and any complaints against him would only be a waste
of time,” the complainant said.
The
accused used his influence in the police force to threaten the man, he claimed.
An
FIR has been registered at Sector 10 police station under Section 386 of the
IPC, pertaining to “extortion by putting a person in fear of death”.
This
is not the first such complaint against Sharma. Earlier too, a similar
complaint had been filed against him at Sector 40 police station.
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