Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS): The Mumbai Police have booked a Deputy Commissioner of Police, an Inspector, and a sacked cop in an alleged extortion case of Rs 17 lakh from a property dealer, an official said here on Thursday.

According to an FIR lodged by the Amboli police station in Andheri West, the accused persons are DCP Akbar Pathan, Inspector Chimaji Adhav and dismissed inspector Sunil Mane, confirmed Mumbai Police spokesperson and DCP, S. Chaitanya.

As per an official, a property dealer and financer named Gurusharan Singh Chauhan filed a complaint with the police alleging cheating, fraud, extortion, threats of murder, assault etc. against the trio.

Chauhan claimed that the two police officers and the former cop threatened to file false cases against him and demanded Rs 17 lakh as extortion money to save him from the consequences.

When they asked for more money, Chauhan refused to oblige, following which they reportedly retaliated with abuses and also assaulted him at his office in Andheri West, and made him sign some blank papers before filing a complaint against him with the MIDC police station.

Following Chauhan's complaint, the Amboli police lodged an FIR against DCP Pathan, Inspector Adhav and ex-cop Mane under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. Further investigations are underway.

DCP Pathan had earlier been booked by the Marine Lines Police in an alleged corruption case of Rs 50 lakh, along with former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh and others, following a complaint filed by a builder named Shyamsunder Agarwal.

Incidentally, Mane is an accused in the investigation into the sensational case of planting an SUV with 20 gelatin sticks near Antilia, the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani. He was dismissed from the force in June after his arrest.