Overview
- Sections 3 and 4 of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act were added to the FIR against alleged extortion ringleader Rajkumar, also known as Raju Meena, on December 8.
- Jeeshan Ali was arrested on November 19, with associates Chandan Kumar Chaudhary and Dilip Kumar (also reported as Dilip Rathi) held on November 21 and 23, and Dina Nath Chaudhary also taken into custody.
- Police say roughly 1,200 fake stickers, rubber stamps, a Webley pistol with five live cartridges, spy cameras and multiple mobile phones were seized during raids.
- Investigators report the networks used WhatsApp groups for real-time route and picket updates, rotated sticker designs monthly to evade checks and routed payments through multiple bank accounts in relatives’ names.
- The probe began in April after a Badarpur checkpoint stop exposed a suspicious sticker, and digital and financial forensics into wider inter-state links remain underway.