<p>Police have arrested Bhiwandi unit president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) and his three associates for allegedly kidnapping and extorting money from a builder, an official said on Friday.</p>.<p>Mohammad Khalid Shaikh alias Guddu (47), who heads the AIMIM in Bhiwandi town in Thane district, has a number of criminal cases registered against him, police said.</p>.<p>DCP (Bhiwandi) Rajkumar Shinde said the police, acting on a tip-off, raided the house of Shaikh and found that the builder had been held captive there.</p>.<p>Shaikh and his three associates were asking the builder to pay up Rs 1.25 lakh and had pointed a weapon at him, he said.</p>.<p>They were arrested and booked under IPC sections related to kidnapping and extortion, and also provisions of the Arms Act, Shinde said.</p>.<p>The Crime Branch is conducting further probe into the case, the police stated.</p>.<p>Shaikh faces several criminal cases, including kidnapping, extortion and attempt to murder, in Bhiwandi, Pune, Mumbai, Raigad and also Gujarat, they said.</p>.<p>He was earlier a corporator and in the 2019 assembly polls in Maharashtra, had filed his nomination from the Bhiwandi West constituency as the AIMIM candidate, but his papers were rejected during scrutiny. </p>
<p>Police have arrested Bhiwandi unit president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) and his three associates for allegedly kidnapping and extorting money from a builder, an official said on Friday.</p>.<p>Mohammad Khalid Shaikh alias Guddu (47), who heads the AIMIM in Bhiwandi town in Thane district, has a number of criminal cases registered against him, police said.</p>.<p>DCP (Bhiwandi) Rajkumar Shinde said the police, acting on a tip-off, raided the house of Shaikh and found that the builder had been held captive there.</p>.<p>Shaikh and his three associates were asking the builder to pay up Rs 1.25 lakh and had pointed a weapon at him, he said.</p>.<p>They were arrested and booked under IPC sections related to kidnapping and extortion, and also provisions of the Arms Act, Shinde said.</p>.<p>The Crime Branch is conducting further probe into the case, the police stated.</p>.<p>Shaikh faces several criminal cases, including kidnapping, extortion and attempt to murder, in Bhiwandi, Pune, Mumbai, Raigad and also Gujarat, they said.</p>.<p>He was earlier a corporator and in the 2019 assembly polls in Maharashtra, had filed his nomination from the Bhiwandi West constituency as the AIMIM candidate, but his papers were rejected during scrutiny. </p>