A Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader from Thane city and the Mumbra unit chief of the party has been booked by the Thane police for alleged fraud, the police said here today.
Police sub-inspector P B Chavan of the Mumbra police station identified the names of accused booked under Section 420, Section 406, Section 465, Section 467, Section 468, Section 471, Section 504 and Secion 506 of the Indian Penal Code as NCP chief Ashraf Usman Pathan alias 'Shannu' and Kamar Abujaid, who are both residents of Mumbra.
No arrest has been made in connection with the offence so far, he said.
Shannu is said to be very close to former Cabinet Minister Jitendra Bunty Awhad and the present MLA representing the Kalwa-Mumbra constituency.
According to a complaint by a tempo driver Sajid Sakir Ansari, since 2008 until now, the corporator had been cheating him.
The complaint stated that Shannu had pulled down a chawl in which the complainant lived promising that he would give him an apartment in a building.
He also made an agreement for the same, but did not give him any accommodation in any legal building.
Instead he threatened that he would send him to jail. Allegedly, the accused also gatecrashed into the room where the complainant lived and took away the copy of the agreement.
The police said that an offence has been registered and appropriate action would be taken after a probe.
However, no arrest has been made so far in connection with the offence, the police said.
