Corporator held for demanding extortion

An Independent corporator of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) was today arrested for allegedly threatening a transport operator and demanding Rs one lakh from him, police said.

The corporator Pawan Chandrakant Pawar threatened Deepak Bhatia twice and demanded money from him, they said.

Pawar, a resident of Shivaji Nagar area in the city, is a corporator from ward no 35 (A) of the NMC.

–Agencies