The Anti-Extortion Cell of Mumbai police has booked two associates of Dawood aide Chhota Shakeel and a builder for allegedly threatening a south Mumbai businessman and demanding Rs 5 crore and a 50,000-square feet plot from him.

Police sources said complainant Sohail Arbiwala, a vintage car dealer and a builder, had purchased a five-acre plot at Mira Road for Rs 4 crore from Meenabai Raut, Brahmini Patil and others in 2012. Arbiwala told the police that when he tried to get the plot registered, he found that a developer named Jayesh Shah had also done some monetary transactions with the same owner. When Arbiwala checked with Shah about the deal, the latter allegedly threatened Shah using Shakeel’s name.