Summary:
A superintendent of police (SP)-rank officer and another person have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a 2009 kidnapping and extortion case by a court in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon. While Nimbalkar was also an accused in the case, the court acquitted him for want of evidence. A case was registered against Lohar and Yevle on July 16, 2009 and the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conducted a probe into it. The court pronounced the sentence on Saturday and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the duo. Mahajan was released on July 2 after his son Manoj Mahajan contacted the then Jalgaon SP for help..