Amruta Fadnavis threat case: Designer Aniksha sent to 14-day judicial custody

A Mumbai court on Friday sent Aniksha Jaisinghani arrested for allegedly offering a bribe to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnaviss wife Amruta and also threatening her to 14day judicial custody turning down the cops plea to extend her police remandAniksha was arrested by the city police on March 16 based on a case filed at Malabar Hill police station on February 20 on the complaint of Amruta Fadnavis She is also accused of demanding extortion of Rs 10 crore from the latterThe police produced Aniksha before sessions court judge D D Almale at the end of her previous remandThe police represented by special public prosecutor Ajay Misar sought her custody for three more days to confront her with a witnessAnikshas lawyer Manan Sanghai submitted that no new ground was made out for extending the police remandThe court after hearing both sides rejected the investigators plea and remanded the accused in judicial custodyPolice have also arrested her father and suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani and their relative Nirmal Jaisinghani in connection with the case The duo are in police custody till March 27 They have been booked under Indian Penal Code IPC sections for conspiracy and extortion and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption ActAlso Read Uddhav Thackeray calls Rahul Gandhis disqualification murder of democracyAs per the FIR Aniksha was in touch with Amruta for the past 16 months and also visited her residenceIn her statement to the police Amruta said she first met Aniksha in November 2021 Aniksha claimed that she was a designer of clothes jewellery and footwear and requested the BJP leaders wife to wear them at public events saying it would help her promote the products the police have saidAfter gaining Amrutas trust Aniksha offered to provide her with information on some bookies through which she claimed they could make money She then directly offered Amruta Rs 1 crore to get her father off the hook in a police case as per the FIRAmruta Fadnavis also told the police that she was upset by Anikshas behaviour and blocked her number the police saidThe woman then allegedly sent Amruta video clips voice notes and many messages from an unknown number She and her father indirectly threatened and conspired against Amruta said the official citing the FIRThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever