Anil Jaisinghani arrested by Mum police in Gujarat

First India Bureau Mumbai: Mumbai cops on Monday nabbed suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani from Godhra in Gujarat, days after his daughter Aniksha was arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail and bribe the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

A crime branch official confirmed that Anil Jaisinghani, who has 14 to 15 cases pending against him, was nabbed from Gujarat, but refused to divulge details.

The commission is expected to coordinate with various govt agencies to stop non-productive cattle from going to slaughterhouses, which is now illegal under the Maha Animal Preservation (Amendment) Animal Act, 1995, passed in March 2015.

—Animal Husbandry Department official statutory body is likely to be placed before the legislature this week.

The state govern- ment has estimated that the population of livestock will go up owing to the beef ban, he said.

The commission is being formed on the lines of bodies set up in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Mumbai police had on March 16 arrested Aniksha Anil Jaisinghani, a designer, after Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta accused her of offering a bribe for intervening in

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a criminal case and also threatening her. She is in police custody till March 21.

The accused tried to extort Rs10 crore from Amruta Fadnavis by “threatening to circulate morphed videos”.

The Mumbai police on Monday nabbed suspected bookie Anil Jaisinghani from Gujarat, days after his daughter Aniksha Jaisinghani was arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail and bribe Amruta Fadnavis, an official said.

We have invoked Indian Penal Code Section 385 (putting a person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion) against Anishka Jaisinghani and her father Anil, the police said.