Army Jawan Arrested for Demanding Rs 2.5 Cr from Sena (UBT) Leader to Manipulate EVMs

Mumbai: Maharashtra police arrested an Army jawan in  Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city as he was allegedly demanding Rs 2.5 crore from Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve for manipulating the EVMs.

Danve is the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra legislative council. He had lodged a complaint with police when the accused, Maruti Dhakne (42), allegedly demanded Rs 2.5 crore from him to manipulate the EVMs machines through a chip.

As part of a trap, the accused was called up to meet the Sena (UBT) leader’s younger brother Rajendra Danve in a hotel near the central bus stand of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar  on Tuesday afternoon.

A police team in civil dress present at the scene caught the accused red-handed while he took Rs 1 lakh as advance from Rajendra Danve.

But a police investigation proved that the arrested accused knew nothing about EVMs and resorted to this cheating as he was was facing a huge debt.  He was booked under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating) and 511 (attempt to commit offence).

The accused is a resident of Pathardi in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district and is posted at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, according to the police.